The spacecraft, integrated with its payloads, was tested for three months for communication between instruments and with the ground.
ISRO

Interview with G. Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chairman.

Sending a spacecraft on a lunar mission involves navigating it, controlling it and communicating with it as it travels deep into space towards the moon. The moon

Chandrayaan-1 is moving closer to the moon and is expected to enter its lunar orbit on November 15.

The earth as seen by Chandrayaan-1 from a height of 70,000 km. This image, the second taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera of the spacecraft on October 29, shows Australia's southern coast.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) deserves much credit for elevating the public

It was up and away in a plume of fire almost before the human eye could capture it, with the promise of putting the Indian tricolour on the moon by mid-November.

Impact Probe makes a perfect landing at 8.31 pm with Tricolour

The unmanned Chandrayyan-1, India

Divya Gandhi

The moon impact probe (MIP) aboard the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 will be dropped on the lunar surface tomorrow marking the beginning of the operational phase of India

THE first orbit reduction manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully completed, taking the spacecraft as near as 200 km from the moon, according to space agency Isro. As part of the manoeuvre, which began at 20:09 IST on Sunday, the 440 newton liquid engine of the spacecraft was fired for about 57 seconds, a statement by Isro said.