India's solar mission Aditya-L1 set to reach Lagrange Point on January 6: ISRO chief
The spacecraft is set to reach its cosmic destination on January 6 at 4pm
Mumbai: Chairman of The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) S. Somanath attended the annual science and technology festival of IIT Bombay and announced that Aditya-L1 spacecraft is set to reach its cosmic destination, Lagrange Point 1 (L1), on January 6, 2024.
Speaking at the three-day annual Science and Technology Fest, S. Somanath said, "Aditya-L1 is going to reach Lagrange Point on January 6 at 4 pm."
After the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the South pole of the moon, the ISRO launched the country's maiden solar mission - Aditya-L1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 2.
Earlier in the month, ISRO informed that the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) of its maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1 is operational.