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Chandrayaan-2 to enter Moon's orbit on August 20: ISRO Chief
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Monday, 12 August, 2019
ISRO Chairman K Sivan on Monday said that India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 will enter the lunar orbit on August 20. The 3,840-kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft had successfully entered the fifth orbit around the Earth on August 6 after five orbit-raising manoeuvres. The manoeuvre to get the spacecraft out of the Earth's orbit will be performed on August 14, Sivan added.