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Aditya-L1 begins long journey to vantage point with successful TLI

IndiaTimes Monday, 18 September 2023
India's solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, has begun its 110-day journey to L1, a point 1.5 million km from Earth. The mission aims to study the Sun and its effect on space weather. The spacecraft will be placed in an orbit around L1, where it will remain for its entire mission life. This is the fifth successful transfer of an object by ISRO towards another celestial body.
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