Aditya-L1 Launch Live Updates: Aditya-L1 has started generating power, solar panels deployed, says Isro

Aditya L1 Mission Launch Live Updates:After Chandrayaan-3, Isro on Saturday kicked off its mission to the Sun with the successful launch of PSLV-C57 carrying Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India’s first solar space observatory. PSLV lifted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 11.50am. It was PSLV’s 59th flight and 25th mission with an XL configuration. The rocket placed 1,480.7kg Aditya-L1 in a highly eccentric Earth-bound orbit in one of the longest launch missions that lasted 63 minutes. The spacecraft will now begin a four-month journey when it will perform orbital maneuvers by using its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) to reach the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L1 -- which is 1.5 million km from the Earth -- in a halo orbit. Stay with TOI for all live updates-