ThePrint explains Aditya-L1’s milestones so far, its early promising scientific observations and which mysteries of the Sun it plans to unravel over the next few years.
Jagdev Singh, Aditya-L1's 1st principal investigator, speaks to ThePrint about the mission’s significance and the data generated so far on the 1st launch anniversary.
After a historic moon landing just a week ago, India’s space agency sent off the country’s first space-based Sun mission Aditya-L1 at 11.50 hours Saturday.
Aditya-L1 carries 7 payloads to study Sun and its effect on interplanetary medium. Satellite to perform series of orbit raising manoeuvres before heading towards Lagrange 1 point.
Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to travel about 1.5 mn km over 4 months to a kind of parking lot in space where objects tend to stay put because of balancing gravitational forces.
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