Aditya L1 Mission ‘Aditya’ at a distance of 1.21 lakh kilometers from the Earth, another stop towards the Sun

India’s first solar mission ‘Aditya L-1’ has taken another step towards its orbit. ISRO’s spacecraft sent to study the Sun successfully entered the Earth’s orbit from one orbit to another for the fourth time early Friday. The Indian Space Agency shared this information on the social media platform ‘X’. The space agency wrote in a post that the process of changing the Earth’s orbit (EBN-4) was completed for the fourth time. ISRO said that ISRO’s ‘ground stations’ at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair monitored the spacecraft during this mission. After the change in orbit, the minimum distance of Aditya L-1 from the Earth became 256 kilometers and the maximum distance became 1 lakh 21 thousand 973 kilometers. ISRO said that the next orbit change procedure will be done on September 19 at around 2 pm. Aditya-L-1 is India’s first space observatory. It will study the Sun around the Sun-Earth’s first Lagrangian point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This distance may seem huge to you, but it represents only 1% of the total distance between the Earth and the Sun. Even before this, the orbit of Aditya-L-1 was changed. The orbit of the spacecraft was changed three times one after the other on September 3, 5 and 10. Aditya L-1 mission took off on 2 September this month. Your goal is to reach the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1) first. This is a place with balanced gravity between the Earth and the Sun, which space agencies also call ‘parking place’. The L1 point is 15 lakh kilometers away from the Earth. The sun can always be seen from here. When the mission starts its work, ISRO will be able to know the solar activities in real time. Aditya spacecraft carried 7 scientific instruments with it. All of these are indigenous and prepared by various departments of India. With the help of instruments different parts of the Sun will be studied.