ISRO's solar mission successfully performs another manoeuvre, craft on course to reaching Sun-Earth L1 point
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he Indian Space Research Organisation announced on Tuesday that its maiden solar mission -- Aditya-L1 -- has performed the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion manoeuvre successfully and the spacecraft was now in a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point.
ISRO also informed that it marked the fifth consecutive time that the ISRO had successfully transferred an object on a trajectory toward another celestial body or location in space.
A post on the ISRO official handle on social media platform X read, "Aditya-L1 Mission | Off to Sun-Earth L1 point | The Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion manoeuvre is performed successfully. The spacecraft is now on a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point. It will be injected into an orbit around L1 through a manoeuvre after about 110 days. This is the fifth consecutive time ISRO has successfully transferred an object on a trajectory toward another celestial body or location in space."
Earlier, a launcher carrying the Aditya-L1 spacecraft blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Station at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The primary objectives of India's maiden solar mission include collecting scientific data and marking another milestone in India's solar exploration efforts.
The agency had earlier posted on X, "Aditya-L1 Mission Aditya-L1 has commenced collecting scientific data. The sensors of the STEPS instrument have begun measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth. This data helps scientists analyze the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth. The figure displays variations in the energetic particle environment, collected by one of the units."
The Supra Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer instrument, a part of the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment payload, also started its data-gathering operations earlier.
✔️ ISRO's solar mission successfully performs another manoeuvre, craft on course to reaching Sun-Earth L1 point
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