Isro said Sunday’s exercise took place at 2.30am and said, “Ground stations in Mauritius, Bangalore, SDSC-SHAR (Sriharikota) and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation.”
The spacecraft is currently in an orbit of 296 km by 71,767 km, and its next Earth-bound maneuver is scheduled for September 15 at 2:00 am.
Two more similar maneuvers will be carried out on Aditya-L1, including one on September 15, to help the spacecraft gain the necessary speed for the journey to reach L1.
Upon completion of its flight to Earth on the 16th day from the launch date, Aditya L1 will begin its Lagrangian 1 Insertion (TLI) flight, beginning its 110-day orbit to L1.
L1 — about 1.5 million km from Earth — refers to Lagrangian point 1 in the Sun-Earth system. It is a place in space where the gravity of her two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and the Earth, is balanced. This allows objects placed there to remain relatively stable relative to both objects.
On reaching the L1 point, another operation couples Aditya-L1 into orbit around L1, where the satellite will travel in an irregularly shaped orbit in a plane approximately perpendicular to the line connecting the Earth and the Sun for the duration of the mission. It will orbit around L1. .
Earlier on Tuesday, Istrak scientists successfully completed Aditya-L1’s second Earthbound maneuver, placing the spacecraft into a 282 km x 40,225 km orbit.
The Istraq/Isro ground stations in Mauritius, Bangalore, and Port Blair tracked the satellite during its second Earthbound mission.
On September 3, a day after Aditya-L1’s launch, Isro completed its first Earthbound maneuver, placing the spacecraft into a 245 km x 22,459 km orbit.
Aditya-L1 is a satellite dedicated to the comprehensive study of the Sun. It has seven different payloads, five of which were developed independently by Isro and two by academic institutions working with Isro.
and Aditya-L1, Isro will attempt to study solar activity and its effect on space weather. Aditya-L1’s scientific objectives include studying coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, coronal mass ejection (CME), solar atmospheric dynamics, and temperature anisotropy.
earth, moon, selfie
Last week, Aditya-L1 took some great pictures as it orbited the Earth. Releasing these photos taken by Aditya-L1 for the first time, Isro said, “Aditya-L1, which is heading towards the L1 point of the Sun and Earth, has taken selfies and images of the Earth and Moon.”
The selfie shows two major payloads: the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) for coronal imaging and spectroscopic studies, and the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) for photosphere and chromosphere imaging (narrowband and broadband). You can In another of his photos, the onboard camera captures the Earth from up close and the Moon from a distance.