India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory is on its way to its gravitationally stable operational orbit around Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun. The spacecraft completed a correction maneuver and continued its journey.
The first Indian solar observatory, Aditya-L1, has completed a correction maneuver and is located at a given point in space to observe the Sun.
The Aditya-L1 solar observatory was launched on September 2, after which it embarked on a 110-day journey to a distance of about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Aditya-L1 is designed to be placed in low-Earth orbit around Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun, a gravitationally stable region from which the vehicle will have an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
India managed to correct the trajectory of Aditya-L1
“A trajectory correction maneuver of about 16 seconds was completed,” the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said in a post on its social media account.
Aditya-L1 carries seven scientific instruments for a five-year mission to study the Sun. This is India’s second spacecraft launched outside Earth’s sphere of influence, the first being the Mars rover launched in October 2013 and arriving in orbit around Mars in 2014.
The word Aditya means “Sun” in Sanskrit and the L1 suffix in the mission name indicates the location from which it will operate.
