Chandrayaan-1 lunar transfer orbit

After launch on 22 October, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was first injected into a highly elliptical 7-hr orbit around Earth, reaching between 255 km and 22 860 km above our planet. The spacecraft then spiralled outwards in increasingly elongated ellipses around Earth, until it reached its lunar transfer orbit on 4 November at 00:26 CET (04:56 Indian standard time). This transfer orbit’s farthest point from Earth is about 380 000 km.