The satellite, which will reach its destination orbit on January 6 at 4 pm, will get into the “halo orbit” around Lagrange Point 1 (L1), one of the five spots in the moving Sun-Earth system.
India's "celestial surya namaskar" is about to reach its climax. India's first space-based solar observatory the Aditya-L1 satellite is going to check-in to the home it is likely to occupy for the next five years.
ISRO continues to surprise India with Chandrayaan-3. Now the orbiting satellite of the Chandrayaan-3 mission called the propulsion module - which was orbiting the Moon - has been extracted from the Moon orbit and placed in an orbit around Earth.
India's space research agency - ISRO - has set its sights on Earth's planetary neighbours and expects to mark its presence on Mars and Venus within five years, Dr M Sankaran, Director of the UR Rao Satellite Center in Bengaluru told NDTV.