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Six days to landing, Chandrayaan 2 makes one last orbit around the moon (indiatoday.in)
1 point by sbmthakur on Sept 1, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



That title is the title of the article, but it is wrong.

They made the last course correction for the orbiter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2#Fifth_lunar_orbi...). It will make multiple orbits around the moon (looking at the lower chart in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2#Charts, about 12/day) before the lander will be separated from it about a week from now, and, if possibly, more after it has separated.




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