Aditya L1 Successfully Perform Manoeuvre, Spacecraft Now Heading To Sun-Earth L1 Point: ISRO

Aditya L1 has performed the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre successfully and the spacecraft was now in a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point, said the Indian Space Research Organisation on Tuesday. ISRO also informed that it was the fifth time in a row that the Indian space agency had successfully transferred an object on a trajectory toward another celestial body or location in space.

"Aditya-L1 Mission | Off to Sun-Earth L1 point | The Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) 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," said ISRO on social media platform X.

ISRO's Aditya L1 Mission (Image Credits:Screengrab from ISRO's Youtube channel)

Aditya L1 was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 2. It carried seven different payloads to have a detailed study of the Sun, four of which will observe the light from the Sun, and the other three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields.

The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million km away from the Earth in the direction of the sun. It is expected to cover the distance in four months' time.

It will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth, directed towards the Sun, which is about 1 per cent of the Earth-Sun distance. The Sun is a giant sphere of gas and Aditya-L1 would study the outer atmosphere of the Sun.

(With ANI inputs)