India's Solar Observatory Aditya-L1 Completes Halo Orbit: ISRO

India's Solar Observatory Aditya-L1 Completes Halo Orbit: ISRO

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New Delhi: 

Call Girl Kolkata Aditya-L1 spacecraft, known as India's solar observatory, has completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), announced mission officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The Aditya-L1 was launched to low earth orbit (LEO) on September 2, last year by the Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - XL (PSLV-XL) variant.

Sun-Earth L1 is the point where the gravitational pull of two large bodies -- Sun and Earth -- will be equal and hence the spacecraft will not gravitate towards any one of them.

The spacecraft was inserted in its targeted halo orbit on January 6, early this year.

To complete a revolution around the L1 point, "Aditya-L1 spacecraft took 178 days", the ISRO said.

During its travel in the halo orbit, the spacecraft underwent various perturbing forces that worked to depart from the targeted orbit reed more .

To maintain the orbit, the spacecraft had to undergo two station-keeping maneuvers on February 22 and June 7.

Aditya-L1, dedicated to the study of the Sun, carries seven payloads. It will observe the photosphere, chromosphere, and the Sun's outermost layers (the corona) using electromagnetic, particle, and magnetic field detectors.