New Delhi, September 19 (ANI): ISRO’s maiden solar mission ‘Aditya L1’ successfully performed ‘Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion’ (TL1I) manoeuvre. The spacecraft has left Earth’s orbit and has commenced its 110-day journey. ‘Aditya L1’ spacecraft has completed its slingshot circuitous journey around Earth and is on a trajectory that will take it to point L1. Taking to X, ISRO informed that spacecraft will be injected into an orbit around L1 through a manoeuvre after about 110 days.
Notably, this is the fifth consecutive time ISRO has successfully transferred an object on a trajectory toward another celestial body or location in space. Meanwhile, ISRO informed that ‘Aditya-L1’ has commenced collecting scientific data.
The sensors of ‘STEPS’ instrument have begun measuring supra-thermal, energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth. Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) instrument, is a part of Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload. Notably, this data helps scientists to analyze the behavior of particles surrounding the Earth. After the historic 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 the Sun from point L1.
The satellite will travel approximately 15 million km to reach the L1 point. The total travel time from the launch pad to L1 will take about four months for ‘Aditya-L1’.
