India’s Maiden Solar Mission Aditya-L1 Will Reach Destination On January 6: ISRO Chairman S Somanath

India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 will reach its destination, the Lagrangian point (L1) which is located 1.5 million km from the Earth, on January 6, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath said.

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Aditya-L1, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was launched by the ISRO on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota. “Aditya-L1 will enter the L1 point on January 6. That is what is expected. Exact time will be announced at appropriate time,” S Somanath told media persons on the sidelines of the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan organised by Vijnana Bharati.

“When it reaches the L1 point, we have to fire the engine once again so that it does not go further. It will go to that point, and once it reaches that point, it will rotate around it and will be trapped at L1,” the ISRO chairman said. Once Aditya-L1 reaches its destination, it will help measure various events happening on the Sun for the next five years.

How India is going to become a technologically powerful country is very important, S Somanath said while addressing the gathering. ISRO has made a plan to build an Indian space station, called ‘Bharatiya space station’ during the ‘Amrit Kaal’ as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instructions, he added.