August 28, 2023 7:43 PM

ISRO to launch 'Aditya L1' mission to study sun on 2nd September from Sriharikota

ISRO's Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun will be launched on the 2nd of September at 11.50 hrs from Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh. In a tweet ISRO informed that it will launch the PSLV-C57 for the Aditya L1 Mission. The satellite will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point L1 of the Sun-Earth system which is about 1.5 million kms from the Earth.  It will take around four months to reach the Lagrange point. The advantage of a...