Aditya-L1 mission: ISRO conducts its first Earth-bound manoeuvre; its orbit raised | Oneindia News

Aditya-L1 mission: ISRO conducts its first Earth-bound manoeuvre; its orbit raised | Oneindia News

On Sunday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) performed the first earth-bound manoeuvre with the Aditya-L1 spacecraft.

The Indian space agency raised the spacecraft to an orbit of 245 km x 22459 km.

Aditya-L1, India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday.

The space agency said the satellite was ‘healthy and operating nominally’.

According to reports, the manoeuvre was performed at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at around 11.45 am.

ISRO has informed that the next earth-bound manoeuvre is scheduled for September 5, at around 3 am.

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