Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday said that the payload covering the Aditya L1 spacecraft has been separated as it left Earth’s atmosphere following its successful launch from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
“The third stage of the separation of PSLV carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter has been completed,” as per ISRO.
The launch of Aditya-L1 by PSLV-C57 is accomplished successfully, it said.
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, the agency said.
The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter lifted off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh at 11.50 am today.
The successful launch of ISRO’s maiden solar mission came on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission — Chandrayaan-3.
ISRO successfully placed a lander on the unexplored lunar South Pole, a feat that put India in the record books as the first country to do so.
The Aditya-L1 mission is expected to reach the observation point in four months. It will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million km away from the Earth in the direction of the sun.
