Aditya-L1 Mission Will Be Launched In The First Week Of September, Says ISRO Chief. See PICS Of The Solar Mission

Aditya-L1 Solar Mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar mission, atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in the first week of September.

Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar mission, will study the drivers for space weather, the heating of the corona and chromosphere, the development of coronal mass ejections, and conduct magnetic field measurements in the solar corona.

Aditya-L1 Mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) maiden space-based solar mission, Aditya-L1, will be launched in the first week of September 2023, the Indian space agency's chairman S Somanath has said. (Photo: X/@ISRO)

ISRO Solar Mission: ISRO will place the Aditya-L1 spacecraft around the Lagrange Point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. A Lagrange point is a position in space where a spacecraft tends to stay fixed, and is meant to reduce fuel consumption. ISRO chose L1 as the location for Aditya-L1 in space because L1 will allow the spacecraft uninterrupted views of the Sun. Also, there will be no eclipses, because of which Aditya-L1 will be able to study solar activities all year-round. (Photo: X/@ISRO)

Aditya-L1 Mission Launch: L1, where Aditya-L1 is intended to be placed, is located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. (Photo: X/@ISRO)

Aditya-L1 Solar Mission: Aditya-L1 is equipped with seven payloads, which are of two types: remote-sensing payloads and in-situ payloads. (Photo: X/@ISRO)

Aditya-L1 Mission: The four remote-sensing payloads of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft are the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), and High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS). (Photo: Instagram/@ISRO)

Aditya-L1’s three in-situ payloads are the Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX), Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA), and Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers. (Photo: Instagram/@ISRO)

Aditya-L1 Solar Mission: VELC will perform imaging of the solar corona (outer atmosphere), SUIT will capture images of the photosphere (solar surface) and chromosphere (reddish, glowing layer above the photosphere), SoLEXS and HEL1OS will observe the Sun as a star, ASPEX will analyse the solar wind, protons and heavier ions, PAPA will analyse electrons in the solar wind, and the magnetometers will study the magnetic field. (Photo: Instagram/@isro)

ISRO Solar Mission: The planned mission duration of Aditya-L1 is five years. Aditya-L1 aims to study the dynamics of the upper solar atmosphere, observe the plasma environment around the Sun, measure the temperature, velocity and density of different regions on the corona, and identify the sequences of solar activities, among other goals. (Photo: Instagram/@isro)