ISRO's Aditya L1 successfully performs third earth-bound manoeuvre, next boosting on Sept 15
Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, completed its third earth-bound maneuver successfully in the early hours of Sunday, according to ISRO. The operation was carried out by the space agency's Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC).
«The third Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#3) is successfully completed from ISTRAC, Bengaluru.» «During this operation, ISRO's ground stations in Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR, and Port Blair tracked the satellite,» the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a post on social media site X (formerly knows as Twitter).
The new orbit achieved is 296 km x 71767 km, according to the statement, and the next maneuver is slated for September 15, around 2 a.m.
Aditya-L1 is India's first space-based observatory, and it will study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
On September 3 and 5, the first and second earthbound movements were successfully completed.
