After Chandrayaan-3, ISRO successfully launched Aditya L1, India’s first solar mission on Saturday (September 2, 2023) from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Here are the launch photos shared by ISRO.
Aditya L1 satellite is dedicated to a comprehensive study of the sun. It has seven payloads out of which five are developed by ISRO and two by Indian academic institutes in collaboration with ISRO.
Aditya L1 is on its journey of 125 days to the destination L1 Lagrange point. L1 is a point in space where the gravitational forces of Earth and Sun are in equilibrium which will allow the satellite to remain stable.
It will stay for 16 days in Earth-bound orbits, during which it will undergo 5 manoeuvres to gain the necessary velocity.
The satellite will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth which is around 1 per cent of the Earth-Sun distance.
Sun is a giant sphere of gas and Aditya L1 will study the outer atmosphere, it will neither land on the sun nor will go any further towards it.