
Internationaldesk:
After the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface, the country's eyes are now on ISRO's solar mission, Aditya-L1 The countdown has also begun. ISRO's ambitious mission will be launched on September 2 with the help of PSLV-XL rocket. It will reach its point L1 exactly 127 days after launch. After reaching this point, Aditya-L1 will start sending very important data.
Ahead of the launch of the mission, ISRO chief S Somnath said, “Preparations for the launch of the Aditya L-1 mission are underway. The mission will be launched at 11.50 am on September 2 from the Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh. Aditya will take the L-1 spacecraft one percent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun to the L-1 point. L1 is one percent of the total distance between the Sun and the Earth. That is 1.5 million kilometers. While, the distance from the sun to the earth is 150 million kilometers.
The ISRO chief further said that the Aditya L-1 mission will be ISRO's first dedicated space mission to observe the Sun. Preparations for the launch have reached the final stage. Rockets and satellites are ready. Rehearsals for the launch have also been completed. Aditya-L1 will be launched by ISRO's most trusted rocket PSLV-C57 into Earth's Lower Earth Orbit. It will then perform three or four orbit maneuvers directly out of Earth's Sphere of Influence (SOI). Then the cruise phase will begin. It will last a bit longer.
Aditya-L1 will be inserted into Halo Orbit. Where is the L1 point. This point is located between the sun and the earth. But the distance from the sun to the earth is only 1 percent. The journey will take 127 days. It is considered difficult because it has to go into two large orbits.
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