Key Points:
- Aditya-L1 will be launching on September 2.
- The destination is 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth.
- It will reveal the mysteries of the Sun.
After the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, now its the time to understand the mysteries of the sun as ISRO officially announced that India’s first solar mission Aditya-L1 will be launched on September 2 at 11.50 am from Sriharikota spaceport. The mission is to understand the secrets of the sun.
Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona along with in-situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrange point), and the same is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.
It is also revealed that the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun will be launched using a PSLV-C57 rocket. The Aditya-L1 would carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the corona — the outermost layers of the Sun.
So let’s wait to get all the secrets of the sun in the coming weeks. We recommend you to stay tuned with us for all the updates at your fingertips.
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