Aditya-L1 Separates from PSLV Rocket, On 125-Day Voyage to Sun

Sriharikota: The Aditya-L1 spacecraft launched onboard a PSLV rocket on Saturday successfully separated to start its 125-day journey towards the Sun, informed ISRO.

The spacecraft was injected in the “precise orbit”, said ISRO chief S Somanath.

The spacecraft was injected into the orbit flawlessly by the PSLV and that the solar panels were deployed.

“Aditya L1 spacecraft has been injected in an elliptical orbit of 235 by 19,500 km which is intended, very precisely by the PSLV,” he added.

Speaking from the Mission Control Center at Sriharikota, Somanath said, “From now on Aditya L1 will go on a long journey for 125 days,”

Aditya-L1, weighing about 1,480.7 kg, is the first space-based observatory class to study the Sun.