The research spacecraft, named Aditya-L1, is scheduled to depart from Earth on September 2. ISRO is rushing to complete preparations. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to remotely observe the solar corona and in situ observe the solar wind at L1 (the sun-earth Lagrange point), about 1.5 million km from Earth.
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar probe was launched into space on July 14 (ANI).
This will be India's first dedicated space mission to observe the sun, carried out by the Bangalore-based space agency. The Aditya-L1 mission, which aims to study the sun from orbit around L1, will carry instruments to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and corona - or the outermost layers of the sun, in different wavelength bands.
An ISRO official said Aditya-L1 is a completely Indian project with the participation of the country's premier scientific agencies.
The project is led by the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), which is the lead institute in developing the Coronagraph payload of the Visible Emission Line.
While the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, in Pune, has successfully built the Solar Ultraviolet Imager for this mission.
The satellite, built and assembled at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, has been taken to the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, ready for launch.
PHAN TUNG (VOV-New Delhi)
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