India reaches closer to the Sun, Aditya L-1 makes fourth successful jump

ISRO’s first space mission Aditya L1 (Aditya L-1) sent to space to study the Sun, the work of increasing the earth orbit for the fourth time was successfully completed early on Friday. The space agency gave this information in a post on X (earlier Twitter). ISRO ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked Aditya L1 during this operation. While a transportable terminal is currently deployed in Fiji to support post engine fire operations of Aditya L1. After this Aditya L1 was covered by 256 km. x 121973 km. A new orbit has been achieved.

ISRO said that the next action to raise the orbit of Aditya L1 is scheduled on September 19 at around 2 pm. After this, Aditya L1 will depart from Earth towards Trans-Lagrangian Point 1. Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory that will first study the Sun in an orbit around the Sun and the Earth’s Lagrangian point (L1). The Lagrangian point is about 15 lakh km from the Earth. It is situated far away. The first, second and third stages of orbit raising of Aditya L1 were successfully completed on 3, 5 and 10 September respectively.

ISRO is regularly raising the orbit of the spacecraft Aditya L1 during its 16-day journey around the Earth. During which spacecraft L1 will achieve the necessary velocity for its further journey. After completion of four Earth-bound orbit rounds, Aditya-L1 will now undergo the next trans-Lagrangian1 insertion phase. Which will be the beginning of an approximately 110-day journey to its destination near Lagrange Point L1. After reaching the L1 point, Aditya L1 will be placed in an orbit around L1, which is a gravitationally balanced space between the Earth and the Sun.