The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Tuesday announced that its first solar mission – Aditya-L1 – has successfully performed the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) maneuver and the spacecraft is now on a trajectory that will take it to sun will bring. -Earth L1 point. ISRO also said that this was the fifth consecutive time that ISRO had successfully transferred an object on a trajectory to another celestial body or location in space.
A post on the official ISRO handle on social media platform X read: “Aditya-L1 Mission | On to Sun-Earth L1 point | The Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) maneuver was successfully completed. The spacecraft is now on a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point. It will be injected into orbit around L1 via a maneuver after approximately 110 days. This is the fifth time in a row that ISRO has successfully transferred an object on a trajectory to another celestial body or location in space.”
Earlier, a launch vehicle carrying the Aditya-L1 spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan space station at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The key objectives of India’s first solar mission include collecting scientific data and marking a new milestone in India’s solar exploration efforts.
The agency had earlier posted on X: “Aditya-L1 Mission: Aditya-L1 has started collecting scientific data. The STEPS instrument’s sensors have begun measuring suprathermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth. This data helps scientists analyze the behavior of particles around Earth. The figure shows variations in the energetic particle environment collected by one of the units.”
The Supra Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) instrument, part of the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload, also started collecting data earlier.
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