Aditya L1 mission: First Earth-bound firing to raise orbit today; know how, what will happen in 125-day journey to Sun

On Sunday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) performed the first earth-bound manoeuvre with the Aditya-L1 spacecraft. The Indian space agency raised the spacecraft to an orbit of 245 km x 22459 km. Aditya-L1, India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday. The space agency said the satellite was ‘healthy and operating nominally’. According to reports, the manoeuvre was performed at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at around 11.45 am. ISRO has informed that the next earth-bound manoeuvre is scheduled for September 5, at around 3 am. #AdityaL1Launch #AdityaL1 #AdityaL1Mission #ISTRAC #ISRO #AdityaL1LiftsOff #AdityaL1LaunchVideo ~PR.151~ED.103~HT.99~

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory set to study the Sun from a halo orbit around first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), located roughly 1.5...

India's solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, has begun its 110-day journey to L1, a point 1.5 million km from Earth. The mission aims to study the Sun and...