September 1, 2023 8:37 PM

ISRO all set to launch first of its kind solar mission Aditya L1 from Sriharikota tomorrow

Indian Space Research Organisation will launch the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, namely Aditya L1 on 2nd September 2023, Saturday at 11.50 hrs from Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh. 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 km from the Earth.  It will take around four months to reach the Lagrange point. The advantage of a halo orbit around the L1 point is that the sat...