Aditya-L1's first earth-bound firing to raise orbit successful, says ISRO
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said the first earth-bound firing to raise the Aditya-L1 orbit has been completed successfully.
The space agency asserted that the satellite is healthy and operating nominally.
In a post on X said, ISRO said, «The first Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#1) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. The new orbit attained is 245km x 22459 km.
The next maneuvre (EBN#2) is scheduled for September 5, 2023, around 03:00 Hrs. IST.»
The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter lifted off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh at 11.50 am on Saturday.
«The third stage of the separation of PSLV carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter has been completed,» as per ISRO.
The launch of Aditya-L1 by PSLV-C57 is accomplished successfully, it had said.
According to ISRO, the vehicle has placed the satellite precisely into the intended orbit.
India’s first solar observatory has begun its journey to the destination of Sun-Earth L1 point, it said.
The successful launch of ISRO’s maiden solar mission came on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission — Chandrayaan-3.
The ISRO successfully placed a lander on the unexplored lunar South Pole, a feat that put India in the record books as the first country to do so.
According to the agency, the Aditya-L1 mission is expected to reach the observation point in four months.
It 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 will carry seven different payloads, which will conduct a detailed study of the Sun. While 4 of the payload instruments will observe the light from the Sun, the remaining 3 will measure in-situ
