Aditya-L1: India’s First Solar Mission

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Aditya-L1- its first Mission to study the Sun. This will be India’s second space-based astronomy expedition after AstroSat, launched in 2015.

Aditya-L1

  • The Mission was initially conceived as Aditya-1 in which a 400kg class satellite, carrying only one payload, was planned to be placed in an 800 km low earth orbit (LEO).
  • Later, it was revised as Aditya-L1 Mission, to be placed in the halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. L1, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth, offers the advantage of continuously viewing ....

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