Aditya-L1 LIVE Updates: ISRO’s historic solar mission to launch in a few hours
Aditya-L1 mission details
Aditya-L1 mission will study the Sun for nearly 5 years, and try to understand space weather in depth. The ISRO PSLV rocket spacecraft is set to take flight from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota today. According to an ISRO report, the spacecraft will have seven scientific payloads to study the Sun from different angles. The spacecraft will be placed in low Earth orbit (LEO) in the Lagrange point L1 of the Earth-Sun system.
Named after the Hindi word for the sun, the spacecraft is India's first space-based solar probe. It aims to study solar winds, which can cause disturbance on Earth and are commonly seen as "auroras".
Longer term, data from the mission could help better understand the sun's impact on Earth's climate patterns.
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