ISRO solar mission: Chief S Somnath reveals the time it will take Aditya-L1 spacecraft to reach Lagrange Point 1
ANI. This mission is expected to reach its destination after a 110-day journey from Earth. Somath in a talk with reporters in Tamil Nadu's Madurai said, “Currently, it takes almost 110 days to travel from Earth to the L1 point.
So by the middle of January, it will reach the L1 point." He added, "Then at that point, we will do the insertion into the Lagrange Point. That is called the halo orbit. It's a big orbit." The Aditya-L1 mission was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 2, following the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the South pole of the moon.
The spacecraft carries seven distinct payloads designed to conduct a comprehensive study of the sun. Four of these instruments will observe the sun's light, while the other three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields. Aditya-L1 will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (L1), situated approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth in the direction of the sun.
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