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ISRO to perform crucial manoeuvre on January 6 to bind Aditya-L1 into L1 orbit

With the Aditya L1 spacecraft expected to reach the Lagrangian point (L1) on January 6 the Indian Space Research Organisation (c) will attempt a crucial manoeuvre to bind the spacecraft to an orbit around L1.

Aditya-L1 the first Indian space based observatory to study the Sun was launched on September 2, 2023 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Subsequently, ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru carried out four earth-bound manoeuvres between September 3 and September 15.

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