Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Indian Space Research Organization
Provider type
Government
Orbit
L1-point
Mission type
Heliophysics
Launch site
India
Date
Sat, 02 Sep 2023 06:20:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6507 ever
Mission
Aditya L1 is an Indian solar observation satellite to be placed at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L1. The major scientific objectives of the mission are to achieve a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that heat the solar corona, accelerate the solar wind and produce Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Originally the mission design started as a small LEO satellite carrying only a coronagraph as a payload. In order to get the best science from the Sun, continuous viewing of the Sun is preferred. A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses.