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Aditya L1 Mission Set To Be Injected Into Final Orbit: ISRO Chief
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Aditya L1, the maiden solar mission, is set for its final manoeuvre to reach its destination and will be injected into its final orbit on the evening of January 6, 2024.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Aditya L1, the maiden solar mission, is set for its final manoeuvre to reach its destination and will be injected into its final orbit on the evening of January 6, 2024. The ISRO chief also said that after reaching its final destination, the spacecraft will be able to view the sun without any eclipses.
While addressing the media, ISRO chief Somanath said, “Aditya-L1 is going to reach its L1 point on January 6 at 4 p.m., and we are going to do the final manoeuvre to keep it there.”
Earlier, on September 2, 2023, the mission was launched by the ISRO team and has undergone four earth-bound manoeuvres and a Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvres, all successfully. The ISRO chief continued that after a flight duration of 63 minutes and 20 seconds on January 6, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft will achieve a successful injection into an elliptical orbit measuring 235×19500 km around the Earth.
Aditya-L1 is the first space observatory in India that is intended to study the Sun from a halo orbit centered on the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is located around 1.5 million km from Earth.
The director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, said that Aditya L1 will reach a halo orbit around the L1 point. There will be movement at the L1 point as the Earth revolves around the Sun. The halo orbit also does so.