Aditya L1 is India's first solar mission. The PSLV-C57 will travel 1.5 million km from the Earth to the Lagrange 1 or L1 point between the Earth and the Sun. The mission got its name from the L1 point of the Sun-Earth System.
The Aditya L1 spacecraft will carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layer of the Sun using electromagnetic and magnetic field detectors.
The mission is scheduled to be launched on 02 September 2023 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 11:50 am IST.
The first solar mission of India has been allocated a budget of Rs 378 crore ($44.7 million).
According to ISRO, the Aditya L1 will carry Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), HEL1OS (High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer), ASPEX (Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment), Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA) and MAG (Magnetometer).