Aditya-L1 spacecraft is now heading towards the Lagrange point 1 of the Earth-Sun system which is 1.5 mn km away from our planet. Check its recent progression even as ISRO does a correction manoeuvre in latest move.
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In September 2023, Aditya-L1 spacecraft took flight towards the Sun, and it has been closing in on the L1 point ever since with various manoeuvre shifts undertaken by ISRO.
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According to ISRO to reach the L1 point the spacecraft has to conduct a small adjustment to make sure the spacecraft is correctly aligned to reach its assigned parking spot.
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On October 6, ISRO reported that the spacecraft had successfully performed a trajectory correction manoeuvre (TMC) and now is heading towards the Sun orbit.
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The ISRO shared post on X saying, “A Trajectory Correction Maneuvre (TCM), originally provisioned, was performed on October 6, 2023, for about 16 s.”
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Now on its way to the L1 point, the Aditya-L1 payloads will again start to collect data about the space environment.
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The Aditya-L1 mission aims to understand the Sun's chromospheric and coronal heating and partially ionized plasma, the formation of the coronal mass ejections, and solar flares.
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From the outermost layer of the sun, the data about the coronal layer will be studied from seven different payloads on board the spacecraft
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The mission will also study the formation and composition of solar wind and space weather.
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According to the reports, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft is expected to reach the Lagrange point 1 at the beginning of January, 2024.
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The Aditya L1 launch is on September 2, 2023, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.