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