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Aditya-L1 mission to be launched during the 2019-2020
Posted on: 27/Jan/2016 11:18:29 AM
400 kg satellite, Aditya-L1 will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as part of its first ever Indian mission to study the sun.
The Aditya-L1 mission, would be launched during the 2019-2020 timeframe by ISRO`s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-XL from the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 80 km from here.
The Aditya L1 mission is aimed at studying the sun from an orbit around the sun-earth lagrangian point (L-1) which is about 1.5 million km from earth. It will carry seven payloads including a coronagraph to observe the outermost layers of the sun, the corona.
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