The spacecraft is expected to be placed in the halo orbit at around 4 pm today. The final insertion point was selected for its favourable position which can be used to get a view of the Sun constantly. From its destination point, called the Lagrangian Point-1, the Aditya L-1 satellite will perform experiments in order to help us understand the star of the solar system.
The spacecraft is expected to be placed in the halo orbit at around 4 pm today. The final insertion point was selected for its favourable position which can be used to get a view of the Sun constantly. “This manoeuvre (at around 4 pm on Saturday) will bind the Aditya-L1 to a halo orbit around L1. If we don’t do this, there is a possibility that it will continue its journey, maybe towards the Sun,” an ISRO official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Nigar Shaji, the Project Director for the Aditya L-1 mission said at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru, “The Indian solar observatory will have an uninterrupted and continuous view of the Sun and will help us understand space weather. It will act like a forecasting and warning platform for solar storms.”
“After the insertion the satellite will be destined to look at the Sun forever as long as its electronics inside are healthy and ready to transmit data. We hope to find out a lot of correlation between the solar corona and mass ejection and impact on space weather we are facing everyday,” ISRO chief S Somanath had said earlier.
From its destination point, called the Lagrangian Point-1, the Aditya L-1 satellite will perform experiments in order to help us understand the star of the solar system.