Aditya L1 ISRO's first Sun mission: Satellite set to be injected into Halo-Orbit

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s ambitious debut mission to study the Sun, Aditya L1, will reach its final destination on Saturday at 4pm.

ISRO will perform the final manoeuvre on Saturday to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.

Aditya L1 will be injected into its final destination orbit near the Sun, some 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) launched the Aditya-L1 spacecraft from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, on 2 September in 2023.

After a flight duration of 63 minutes and 20 seconds, it was successfully injected into an elliptical orbit of 235x19500 km around the Earth.