Chennai, (thestates.news)| The fourth earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya L1 mission to study the sun was successfully performed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO) on Friday morning. The orbit raising was performed at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bengaluru at 0200 hrs early today.
ISRO posted “Aditya L1, India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully completed its fourth earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours of Thursday/Friday. “The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully”, it said. 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 manoeuvre, Trans-Lagragean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I), which marks a send-off from the Earth, is scheduled for around 2 am on September 19. “Aditya L1, India’s first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully completed its fourth earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours of Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced.
“The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (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 said. (UNI)
Fourth Orbit raising manoeuvre of Aditya-L1 successful
