{"id":4451,"date":"2023-08-10T06:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/chandrayaan-3-undergoes-orbit-reduction-manoeuvre-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:20:18","slug":"chandrayaan-3-undergoes-orbit-reduction-manoeuvre-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/chandrayaan-3-undergoes-orbit-reduction-manoeuvre-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrayaan-3 Undergoes Orbit Reduction Manoeuvre &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chandrayaan-3 successfully underwent a planned orbit reduction manoeuvre on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, bringing it closer to the Moon. In order to perform this operation, a retro-firing of engines was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Chandrayaan-3 is in an orbit of 174 kilometres \u00d7 1437 kilometres, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a mission update. This was Chandrayaan-3\u2019s third lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>Retro-firing allows a spacecraft to be pushed forward because its engines are burnt in a direction opposite to the way the spacecraft was fired.<\/p>\n<p>After Chandrayaan-3 successfully performed its third lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre, the spacecraft\u2019s official X (formally Twitter) account wrote: \u201cGetting ever closer to the Moon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next orbit reduction manoeuvre will take place on August 14, 2023, between 11:30 am to 12:30 am IST.<\/p>\n<p>On August 6, ISRO shared stunning views of the Moon captured by Chandrayaan-3.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chandrayaan-3 successfully underwent a planned orbit reduction manoeuvre on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, bringing it closer to the Moon. In order to perform this operation, a retro-firing of engines was conducted. Now, Chandrayaan-3 is in an orbit of 174 kilometres \u00d7 1437 kilometres, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a mission update. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}