In a major achievement, Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, has successfully performed the third earth-bound manoeuvre. The new orbit attained by the satellite is 296 km x 71767 km. A total of five such orbit manoeuvring will be performed during the satellite’s revolution around the Earth of which three have been successfully performed. The second earth-bound manoeuvre was successfully performed on September 5, while the 1st was performed on 3 September. Watch this video to know more.
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