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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicAditya-L1

Topic: Aditya-L1

In 1 yr, Aditya-L1 has found sweet spot with uninterrupted view of Sun, studied solar winds, space weather

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. 

‘Idea to study Sun from space was first met with scorn.’ Aditya-L1 mission chief recounts 17-yr journey

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.

ISRO’s Seetha Somasundaram helped put India on the moon. Aditya-L1 is her latest success

Until her retirement, the experimental physicist worked on landmark ISRO missions—India’s moon and Mars missions, Aditya-L1, and AstroSat.

Aditya-L1 gets ‘send off’ from Earth’s orbit after ISRO performs key manouevre

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), located roughly 1.5 million km from earth.

India’s first solar mission spacecraft Aditya L-1 commences collecting scientific data, says ISRO

The national space agency said that the sensors on STEPS instrument began measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances greater than 50,000 km from Earth.

BJP’s ‘flustered’ by Oppn’s INDIA alliance — Urdu press weighs in on ‘India vs Bharat’ row

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 takes selfie, captures the Earth & Moon

Aditya-L1 blasted off spaceport Sriharikota on 2 September and will reach the orbit of Lagrange Point (L1) by January.

Aditya L-1 makes successful earth-bound maneuver, ISRO says satellite healthy

Spacecraft was launched Saturday with seven different payloads for detailed study of the Sun.

‘Our tireless scientific efforts will continue,’ Modi after launch of 1st solar mission Aditya-L1

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.

India’s ‘sunshine moment’ — ISRO successfully launches Aditya-L1, its first solar mission

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. 

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.