Thursday, October 23, 2008

Chandrayaan completes 4 orbits around Earth

India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 is doing fine and has completed four orbits around the Earth, a top space official said Thursday, a day after it was launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
"The health of the spacecraft is normal and (it is) doing fine. Spinning in elliptical orbit once in every six hours and 30 minutes, it has completed four orbits and is in the fifth orbit,"