Aditya-L1 Mission Successfully Launched

On 2nd September, 2023, India celebrated a significant milestone as the Aditya-L1 solar mission was successfully launched from Sriharikota, marking the nation's first step toward achieving its solar mission goals.

  • The mission aims to explore the Sun and its corona.
  • The major science objectives of the mission are:
    • Understanding the Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration.
    • Understanding initiation of Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), flares and near-earth space weather.
    • To understand coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere.
    • To understand solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy.
  • In four months, the spacecraft will be placed in its Halo orbit, L1, which is considered ....
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