Aditya-L1, India's first solar mission, to lift off on September 2

Monday, 28 August 2023
As Vikram and Pragyan, the Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover continue to do science on the Moon, Isro has set the date for the launch of its solar mission on September 2. Aditya-L1 is the first space-based observatory-class Indian solar mission to study the Sun. It is planned to be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5-million-km from Earth.

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ISRO’s Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, to lift off on September 2 | Oneindia News 03:35

India's pioneering space-based solar mission, Aditya-L1, is set for launch on September 2, 2023, from Sriharikota, as declared by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday. The mission, spanning five years, aims to investigate the Sun's phenomena. It will be deployed atop a Polar...

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