Aditya L1 Mission India’s first solar mission Aditya reached how far from the earth know

Aditya L1 Mission: India’s first solar mission Aditya L-1, which took off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, is now on its way to the Sun. After traveling 15 lakh kilometers from the Earth, after about 120 days, Aditya spacecraft will reach the L1 point, which is called the Lagrange point. The distance that Aditya has covered so far in his 3-day stay is something like this – Aditya’s minimum distance from the Earth is currently 282 kilometers and the maximum distance is 40 thousand 225 kilometers. Indian space agency ‘ISRO’ has shared this information.

The space agency said on Tuesday that the second procedure related to the Earth’s orbit of ‘Aditya L1’ was successfully completed in the early hours of Tuesday. The process was carried out from the Bangalore-based ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC).

In a post on social media platform ‘X’, ISRO said that its centers in Mauritius, Bangalore and Port Blair monitored Aditya. Now from the orbit in which the spacecraft is, its nearest distance to the Earth is 282 kilometers and the farthest is 40 thousand 225 kilometers.

Aditya-L1 Mission:
The second Earth-bound maneuver (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru.

ITRAC/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.

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— ISRO (@isro) September 4, 2023

ISRO also said that the new change in the orbit of ‘Aditya L1’ will be done on 10 September 2023 at around 2.30 am. ‘Aditya L1’ is the country’s first space based observatory. It will study the outer atmosphere of the Sun by staying in the Sun-Earth Lagrangian Point (L-1), about 15 lakh kilometers away from the Earth.

On 2nd of this month, ‘Aditya L1’ was successfully launched from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The first change in the satellite’s orbit was made on September 3. It still has to go through many processes. The big turning point for the mission will be to get it closer to the Sun. However, the L1 point to which it will go is only 1 percent of the total distance between the Sun and the Earth.