Aditya-L1 completes 3rd Earth-bound manoeuvre

Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully underwent its third earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours today, ISRO said. The space agency's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) carried out the operation. "The third Earth-bound manoeuvre is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. ISRO's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation," ISRO said in a post on social media platform X. The new orbit attained is 296 km x 71767 km, it said, adding the next manoeuvre is scheduled on September 15, around 2 am. #AdityaL1 #Adityal1space #ISROsolarmission ~HT.99~ED.153~ED.102~