ISRO’s ‘Space Odyssey’: ‘Aditya L1’ successfully performs fourth earth-bound manoeuvre

As a part of ISRO’s ‘Space Odyssey’, Aditya L1 - India’s first solar mission successfully performed the fourth earth-bound manoeuvre on September 15. ISRO`s ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during the operation. Meanwhile, a transportable terminal currently stationed in the Fiji Islands for Aditya-L1 will support post-burn operations. ISRO taking to the platform X (formerly Twitter) informed that the new orbit attained is 256 km x 121973 km. The next manoeuvre for Trans-Lagragean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) is scheduled for September 19 around 02:00 Hrs. IST. After the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon, ISRO started its new space mission on September 2. ISRO launched its maiden solar mission ‘Aditya-L1’ to study Sun from point L1. The satellite will travel approximately 15 million kilometres to reach the L1 point. The total travel time from launch pad to L1 will take about four months for ‘Aditya-L1’.