ISRO says Aditya-L1's first  earth-bound manoeuvre performed successfully

BY -srushti sharma

The first Earth-bound  maneuver is performed successfully from  ISTRAC, Bengaluru. 

The next manoeuvre is  scheduled for September 5,  2023, around 03:00 Hrs. IST

After travelling about 15  lakh kilometres from  the Earth over 125 days,  the spacecraft will be placed  in a halo orbit

There are five Lagrange  points between the earth  and the sun where a small  object stays if put there

At this point, the gravitational  pull of the earth and  the sun equals  the centripetal force

The spacecraft would be  launched towards the  Lagrange L1 point using on-board propulsion 

Aditya-L1, the country's  first solar mission,  is healthy and  operating nominally

India's first solar mission  Aditya-L1 was launched successfully from  Sriharikota on Saturday

 Aditya-L1 is the first  space-based observatory  to study the sun