Sriharikota: India has launched Aditya L-1, it’s first Solar Mission. The launch took place at 11.50 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. Aditya L-1 was carried by ISRO’s trusted launch vehicle PSLV’s C57 rocket.
Aditya L-1 carries seven payloads for studying the Sun. All payloads are indigenously developed in collaboration with various ISRO centres. Four of these will monitor light from the Sun, while the other three will conduct studies of the Sun’s plasma and magnetosphere. The probe’s main payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), will capture 1440 images per day and send them to the ground station.
The probe will reach its destination by January. It is estimated that the first pictures will be available by the end of February.
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