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Aditya-L1 Is At Right Place, Will Help Entire World And Not Just India: ISRO Chief
Aditya-L1: Describing the halo orbit, S Somanath said it is shaped like an egg, and had ISRO not conducted certain corrections, Aditya-L1 would have escaped from its position.

Aditya-L1: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had to make some trajectory corrections to precisely place Aditya-L1 in the final destination, the space agency's chief S Somanath has said. Aditya-L1's velocity had to be maintained at 31 metres per second.
Source : ISRO
New Delhi: India has achieved another major space milestone by precisely placing Aditya-L1, the country's first space-based solar observatory to study the Sun, in the intended orbit. Aditya-L1's home is a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a special strategic and vantage point in space that will offer the spacecraft an uninterrupted view of the Sun for the entirety of its mission duration, which is five years, and will also allow the space vehicle to conserve energy by saving
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Prosenjit NathThe writer is a technocrat, political analyst, and author.
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