Aditya-L1, named after the rising Sun, will carry seven payloads to observe solar activities for five years. It will cover its journey to the L1 point in about 4 months.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 11.50 am Saturday. The lift-off took place barely 10 days after ISRO became the first space agency to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon’s South Pole.Aditya-L1, fired using ISRO’s reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), will carry seven payloads to observe solar activities for five years. The mission’s main objective is to expand our knowledge of the Sun, and how its radiation, heat, flow of particles, and magnetic fields affect us
