Aditya-L1 healthy, first Earth-bound manoeuvre puts spacecraft in 245km x 22,459km orbit

The Indian Space Research Organisation said today that Aditya L1, the country's first solar mission, has successfully performed the second Earth-bound manoeuvre. The space agency's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network i.e the ISTRAC carried out the operation. The next manoeuvre is scheduled for September 10 around 2:30 am. A total of five such orbit manoeuvring will be performed during the satellite's revolution around the Earth. Aditya L1's first Earth-bound manoeuvre was successfully performed on September 3. #AdityaL1 #Adityal1space #ISROsolarmission ~HT.99~ED.102~PR.153~

Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully underwent its third earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours of Sunday.

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...