Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar probe, successfully entered lunar orbit on November 8. On the 14th or 15th it will launch a projectile carrying three devices and crash on the moon
Starting the engines took 817 seconds when the spacecraft was at an altitude of 500 kilometers above the moon. In the next step, the orbit of the spacecraft will be reduced to an altitude of about one hundred kilometers. On November 14 or 15, the projectile, MIP (Moon Impact Probe), will be launched from it, which will crash on the surface of the moon.
The spacecraft now orbits the moon in an elliptical orbit that passes over the polar regions of our natural satellite. The closest point (Frigue) is the Chenadrian-1 spacecraft at a height of 504 kilometers from the surface of the moon, while at the farthest point (apogee) it is 7502 kilometers away. In this mode the whole coffee takes about 11 hours.
The MIP projectile spacecraft also contains three devices - a radar altimeter. (Radar Altimeter) used to measure the height of the spacecraft during the approach, as well as to evaluate the technology for future landing missions; Video imaging system - which will take a close-up picture of the surface of the moon during the approach, this system also includes a CCD camera; And the third instrument is a mass spectrometer that measures the components of the lunar atmosphere, which is negligible but not completely zero, during the crash.
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