In its latest statement, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that Aditya-L1 had successfully undergone the second Earth-bound manoeuvre during the early hours on Tuesday. "The second Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. ISTRAC/ISRO's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km (sic)," ISRO wrote on 'X' (formerly known as Twitter).
The space agency further said that the next manoeuvre (EBN#3) is scheduled for September 10, 2023, around 02:30 Hours (IST). Earlier on September 3, Aditya-L1 successfully performed the first Earth-bound manoeuvre of the country's maiden solar mission. The space agency had said that the satellite is healthy and operating nominally.
Aditya-L1 to go two more Earth-bound orbital manoeuvres
The spacecraft will undergo two more Earth-bound orbital manoeuvres before placing in the transfer orbit towards the Lagrange point L1. Aditya-L1 is expected to arrive at the intended orbit at the L1 point after about 127 days.
It should be noted here that Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first sun-earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is located roughly 1.5 million km from Earth. Earlier on September 2, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) successfully launched the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, from the Second Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota.
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