As the Aditya-L1 spacecraft was successfully placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point L1 on Saturday it was a big moment for a clutch of State public sector units in Kerala.
Keltron, Steel and Industrial Forgings Limited (SIFL), Travancore Cochin Chemicals (TCC) and Kerala Automobiles Ltd. (KAL) had contributed components for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission meant to study the sun.