Indias first solar mission Aditya L1 continues its journey towards the L1 point which is 1.5 million kilometres away from our planet, on Sunday the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) updated that a successful Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) process was carried on earlier in the previous week.On Sunday ISRO said that originally a provisioned was performed on October 6 for about 16 seconds, adding that the move was needed to correct the trajectory evaluated after tracking the Trans-Lagrangian Point-1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre — an operation that puts the spacecraft on its path to the final destination. ISRO said, “TCM ensures that the spacecraft is on its intended path towards the Halo orbit insertion around L1. The Spacecraft is healthy and on its way to Sun-Earth L1”. Magnetometer is one from the seven instruments on board, ISRO said it will be turned on again “within a few days”. This instrument is meant to study the interplanetary magnetic field.This is the second spacecraft by the Indian space agency that has left the Earths sphere of influence after Mangalyaan. The L1 point lies only at 1% of the distance between Earth and the Sun, this point will allow us to study the Sun without any interference of dust found in Earths atmosphere or the atmospheric magnetic fields which do not allow some of the harmful radiations like UV radiation from the Sun raises to enter the Earths atmosphere.
