Big update on Aditya-L1 Mission; ISRO Chief S Somanath shares details of L1 point insertion
Dec 24, 2023
New Delhi, December 24 (ANI): India’s ambitious solar mission Aditya-L1 is near completion now. The spacecraft is in right direction and inching closer to the L1 point or Lagrange 1 point. ISRO Chairman S Somanath on December 23 shared details of the mission and when L1 insertion day. After the historic soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on south pole of Moon, ISRO started its new space mission on September 02. ISRO launched its maiden solar mission ‘Aditya-L1’ to study Sun from point L1. The spacecraft will travel approximately 15 million km to reach the L1 point. The total travel time from the launch pad to L1 will take around four months for ‘Aditya-L1’.
