New Delhi: After two weeks of journey India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar orbit on Saturday evening. It started at 16:50 hrs IST and within 14 minutes, it the entered lunar orbit. It is now 504 km from Moon. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the most critical operation is successful.
"Twenty minutes before Chandrayaan entered the moon's orbit our heart beats stood still. It's successfully entered the orbit and now we are hoping for the next manoeuvre," said ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair.
"The equipments are working perfectly fine and we have already taken a picture from 31000 km distance to check the equipment," he added.
President Pratibha Patil congratulated ISRO on the success of Chandrayaan-1.
By Tuesday the spacecraft will cruise closer to the moon when it makes the transition from the earth's elliptical orbit into deeper space, a top space agency official said Monday.
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