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Halo orbit

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Aditya-L1 spacecraft was successfully placed in halo orbit around the Lagrangian point (L1).A halo orbit is a periodic, 3-dimensional orbit that occurs near one of the L1, L2, or L3 Lagrange points.

  • These points are locations in space where the gravitational pull from two celestial bodies is equal.

It is called a halo orbit because the tracked orbit looks like a halo around the moon.

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