ISRO’s Aditya-L1 Solar Mission to Lift Off from Sriharikota on Sept 2

New Delhi: Now eyeing the sun, ISRO on Monday announced the launch of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft on September 2 at 11.50 am from the Sriharikota spaceport.

The ISRO confirmed the launch of this solar mission in a social media post. It would be launched by a PSLV-C57 rocket.

🚀PSLV-C57/🛰️Aditya-L1 Mission:

The launch of Aditya-L1,
the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun ☀️, is scheduled for
🗓️September 2, 2023, at
🕛11:50 Hrs. IST from Sriharikota.

Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery at… pic.twitter.com/bjhM5mZNrx

— ISRO (@isro) August 28, 2023

Aditya-L1 spacecraft will be involved in remote observations of the solar corona and the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point). The L1 point is at a distance of about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space mission for observations of the Sun.

The Aditya-L1 mission would carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun, the corona, in different wavebands.