After Chandrayaan-3, ISRO set to launch Aditya-L1 spacecraft for solar mission on Sept 2

ISRO has geared up to launch its solar mission and send the Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the sun on September 2 at 11:50 am. The Aditya-L1 will be launched from the same place where the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was launched, the Sriharikota spaceport. 

Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona and in-situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.

It will be the first dedicated Indian space mission for observations of the Sun to be launched by the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency. The space agency said in a social media post that the spacecraft -- the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun -- would be launched by PSLV-C57 rocket.

The Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at studying the Sun from an orbit around the L1, would carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun, the corona, in different wavebands.

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Aditya-L1 is a fully indigenous effort with the participation of national institutions, an ISRO official said. ISRO recently landed the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander on the dark side of the moon on August 23 at 6:4 pm. The entire world witnessed the historic space exploration event through online streaming on various platforms. 

PM Modi has also joined the live streaming and witnessed India become the first country to land on the South pole of the moon. The Chandrayaan-3 was launched to explore the surface of the moon and examine the presence of water on the moon.  

(Inputs from wires)