ISRO’ Aditya L1 successfully completes second earth-bound manoeuvre

Chennai: India’s first solar mission, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, has successfully performed the second earth-bound manoeuvre.

In a post on social media, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said its Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) and ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation.

The space agency further added that the next manoeuvre (EBN #3) is scheduled for September 10 at around 02:30 a.m. IST. A total of five such orbital manoeuvres will be performed during the satellite’s revolution around the Earth. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km.

Aditya-L1 Mission:
The second Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru.

ISTRAC/ISRO’s ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation.

The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km.

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— ISRO (@isro) September 4, 2023

Earlier, ISRO successfully completed the first orbital manoeuvring exercise on September 3.

India’s first-ever solar mission, which includes seven different instruments for studying the moon in detail, took off from Sriharikota on Saturday. Aditya-L1 will be put into a special orbit around a point called Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth in the direction of the sun. It will take about four months to reach this point.

ISRO, the space agency, wants to make it clear that Aditya-L1 won’t land on the sun or get too close to it.