India launched Aditya-L1, its first space mission to study the sun, from Sriharikota. The spacecraft will travel to Lagrange point 1 between the sun and Earth.
“The vehicle has placed the satellite precisely into its intended orbit. India’s first solar observatory has begun its journey to the destination of Sun-Earth L1 point,” ISRO said Saturday.
The mission’s name is a Sanskrit word for sun. L1 stands for Lagrange point 1, referring to the location in space between the sun and Earth where the satellite is headed and where the gravitational forces of the two bodies are in equilibrium, according to ISRO. “This allows an object placed there to remain relatively stable with respect to both celestial bodies,” it said.The Aditya-L1 spacecraft will orbit the Earth several times before traveling to its destination. It will take nearly four months for the satellite to reach that point, some 1.5 million km from the Earth.
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