Chandrayaan-1 successfully settles into lunar trajectory

Following a fifth orbit-raising maneuver, India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully settled into a trajectory that will take it to the Moon. Chandrayaan-1 is India's first mission to venture beyond Earth's orbit. After its launch on 22 October, the spacecraft was first injected into an elliptical 7-hr orbit around Earth, between 255 km and 22 860 km above our planet.