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TopicAditya L-1

Topic: Aditya L-1

‘Extraordinary feat’ — ISRO places Aditya-L1 spacecraft into its final orbit

The spacecraft, India's first solar mission, carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun.

India to launch its 1st X-ray space observatory XPoSat on New Year to study supernovae, neutron stars

Mission, led by Bengaluru's Raman Research Institute with ISRO's UR Rao Satellite Centre, will explore polarisation & timing of X-rays from some of universe's most extreme objects.

Aditya L1 unveils full-disk images of Sun, telescope aboard used 11 filters to show new details

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Ice Age ‘writing system’ to ‘zombie worm’ — 10 biggest science headlines of 2023

While 2023 marked the year India landed on the Moon and sent off its first space-based mission to study the Sun, there was a lot of exciting stuff happening in other fields of science as well.

Aditya L-1 success won’t stop project director Nigar Shaji. Next mission Chandrayaan-4 & Venus

Shaji has been the Aditya mission’s director since 2016, bringing together instruments like coronographs, spectrometers, and magnetometers from various academic institutes and other ISRO centres.

On Camera

Jagdeep Dhankhar’s abrupt exit says three things about the Modi govt

The reason Jagdeep Dhankhar got so far in the Modi era was that he was willing to function as an effective hatchet man for the government.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.