Bengaluru: Aditya L1, India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully completed its fourth earth-bound maneuvre in the early hours of Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced.
“The fourth Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully. Isro’s ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation, while a transportable terminal currently stationed in the Fiji islands for Aditya-L1 will support post-burn operations,” the space agency wrote on X.
The new orbit attained is 256 km x 121973 km.
The next maneuvre, Trans-Lagragean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I), which marks a send-off from the Earth, is scheduled for around 2 am on September 19, Isro said.
The solar mission, which commenced its journey on September 2, will undergo a total of five orbit-raising maneuvre to achieve the necessary speed to reach its destination, the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
The first, second, and third earth-bound maneuvre were successfully executed on September 3, 5, and 10, respectively.
