Scroll down to follow Aditya-L1's journey — from an Earth parking orbit to a halo orbit 1.5 million km away. Each milestone fades in as you reach it.
PSLV-C57 lifts off from Sriharikota at 11:50 IST, placing Aditya-L1 into an elliptical Earth parking orbit.
A series of orbit-raising burns progressively stretches the orbit, building the energy needed to escape Earth's gravity.
The spacecraft breaks free of Earth orbit and begins its cruise toward the L1 point.
Aditya-L1 coasts about 1.5 million km toward the Sun–Earth L1 point, with a mid-course trajectory correction on the way.
126 days after launch, a precise burn captures Aditya-L1 into its halo orbit around L1 — its permanent science home.
The 6-metre boom carrying the magnetometer sensors unfurls, completing the observatory's instrument suite.
Aditya-L1 finishes its first full loop around L1 — about 178 days — after routine station-keeping manoeuvres.
On the mission's first anniversary, ISRO releases Aditya-L1 science data to the global research community, with further releases following.
ISRO announces that Aditya-L1's particle and field measurements, combined with a global ground magnetometer network, explain unusual “dawn-side” geomagnetic disturbances recorded during the two most intense storms of Solar Cycle 25 — on 10 May and 10 October 2024.
ISRO reports that SoLEXS detected “iron fluorescence” — a characteristic X-ray glow at 6.40 keV — across 47 X-class flares in 2024, giving a new way to gauge the height of a flare's X-ray source above the Sun's surface. Published in Solar Physics.
The government tells the Rajya Sabha that Aditya-L1 has captured the first spectroscopic signatures of a coronal mass ejection's onset (VELC), alongside its flare and space-weather results — a progress report on nearly two years of continuous science operations at L1.