The Aditya L-1 mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully performed its third Earth-bound manoeuvre. The manoeuvre took place from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru on September 10. ISRO's ground stations in Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR, and Port Blair tracked the satellite during the operation.
The spacecraft has now achieved a new orbit of 296 km by 71767 km. Two more manoeuvres are scheduled to take place, with the next one planned for September 15. After the final manoeuvre on September 18, the spacecraft will undergo a trans-Lagrangian insertion manoeuvre, marking the start of its 110-day trajectory towards the L1 Lagrange point. At the L1 point, another manoeuvre will bind the spacecraft to an orbit around L1, a balanced gravitational location between the Earth and the Sun.
The spacecraft will use its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine to perform orbital manoeuvres and will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from earth, directed towards the sun, which is about 1% of the earth-sun distance.
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