Solar mission: ISRO’s Surya mission Aditya-L1 will take 125 days to reach
New Delhi: After landing on the moon, Now India is going to carry out its first solar mission ‘Aditya L1’ today. The launch will take place on ISRO’s trusted rocket PSLV at 11.50 a.m. from the second launch pad of the space port at Sriharikota.
Aditya L1 is designed for remote observation of the Sun Atmosphere and actual observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Two scientists at Pune’s prestigious Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said they are eagerly awaiting the results of their main payload, which will be launched on September 2 along with the Aditya L1 mission.