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The adjustment involved altering the Orbiter's OM-87 manoeuvre, which was initially intended to increase its perilune, or the closest point in its lunar orbit...
In a remarkable feat of precision and planning, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully averted a potential collision between its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) above the Moon...
This critical intervention highlights Isro's expertise in ensuring the safety of its missions in increasingly crowded lunar orbits...
According to Isro's unclassified Monthly Summary for September 2024, a planned manoeuvre for the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, scheduled on September 19, was carefully modified to prevent a close conjunction with KPLO..
Isro also revised the tentative plan for the next manoeuvre, OM-88, scheduled for October 1, to avoid any further risks of close encounters with other lunar orbiters, including NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)...
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