Aditya L1 is a satellite dedicated to the comprehensive study of the Sun. Check all the live updates of the launch here.
We are hours before the launch of Aditya-L1, India’s first space-based solar observatory. The Indian Space Research Organisation is prepared to launch its Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun at 11.50 am on Saturday from the second launch pad at Sriharikota following a successful Moon landing.
The 1,480 kg spacecraft will be launched into an extremely elliptical orbit of 235 km by 19,500 km around the Earth by India’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). It will take just over an hour for the PSLV in its XL version, which has six solid fuel-based launchers, to place the satellite in orbit.
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Aditya L1 mission: Aditya-L1 is not headed to the Sun. Instead, it is going to a region in space called the Lagrange 1 or L1 point (that’s why it is called Aditya-L1), which is only 1% of the distance to the Sun away from Earth.
