So my father called me up late last night (while I was dividing my attention between my dinner and Donnie Brasco on the telly) to say that Baba Ramdev had been telling people about the awesomeness coming out of Sriharikota. So he managed to switch his telly on in time to see the launch live. Something to remember for generations with pride. Chandrayaan has made it successfully to parking orbit, with an apapsis/perapsis of 23000/250 km. That is a highly elliptical orbit. Successive engine burns will extend the orbit to lunar transfer and then the fun really begins. This project is a collaboration between many countries with a mixed science payload. The report on the launch is here. The ISRO rocks.
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