BANGALORE: India’s first lunar spacecraft Chandrayan-1 has reached halfway in its journey to the moon. At 7.38 a.m. IST yesterday, its 440 Newton liquid engine was fired one more time to raise its elliptical orbit. Its new orbit would mean an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 267,000 km while its perigee would be slightly different from its current 465 km. Read the rest of this story »