The orbit raising was performed at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bengaluru at 0200 hrs early today.
ISRO posted "Aditya L1, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully completed its fourth earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours of Thursday/Friday.
"The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully", it said.
ISRO's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation, while a transportable terminal currently stationed in the Fiji islands for Aditya-L1 will support post-burn operations," the space agency wrote on X.
The new orbit attained is 256 km x 121973 km.
The next manoeuvre, Trans-Lagragean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I), which marks a send-off from the Earth, is scheduled for around 2 am on September 19.
"Aditya L1, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, successfully completed its fourth earth-bound manoeuvre in the early hours of Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced.
"The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully. Isro's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation, while a transportable terminal currently stationed in the Fiji islands for Aditya-L1 will support post-burn operations," the space agency said. (UNI)
