Solar mission Aditya L1 will reach destination on January 6, says Isro chief

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief S Somnath has announced that the Lagrangian L1 point insertion of the Aditya L1 mission will take place on January 6, 2024. The ISRO chief, however, added that the time for L1 point insertion is yet to be decided. "The L1 point insertion of Aditya L1 will be done on 6th January 2024 but the time has not been decided yet..," he said. Notably, Aditya L1 mission, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was launched by ISRO on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota.