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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that the first earth-bound firing to raise the Aditya-L1 orbit is scheduled for September 3. The Aditya-L1 mission aims to study the Sun and its activities in real time. The satellite will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1, 1.5 million km away from Earth in the direction of the Sun.

"Aditya L1 spacecraft has been injected in an elliptical orbit of 235 by 19,500 km which is intended, very precisely by PSLV," ISRO chief S Somanath said. | Latest News India

Aditya-L1 mission is expected to reach the observation point in four months

Major objectives of Indias solar mission include the study of the physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, the solar wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and flares and near-earth space weather.

Hailing the successful launch of the country's maiden solar mission - Aditya L1 - Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh termed it as a "sunshine moment for India", one that the whole world waited on with "bated breath".

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair, has stated that data from Indias first solar mission, Aditya-L1, will be instrumental in explaining various atmospheric phenomena and aiding climate change studies. The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system.

India News: India's External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on the successful launch of India's first

Major objectives of Aditya-L1 include the study of the physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, the solar wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections and flares and near-earth space weather. Aditya-L1 will study how storms and flares from the Sun emerge and impact us on Earth and our space activities,

The PSLV has placed the Aditya L-1 spacecraft into the intended orbit and from there it will now start its journey towards the Sun-Earth L-1 point or the Lagrangian Point 1  which is nearly 15 lakh Km away from the earth. 

The successful launch of the maiden solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation came on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission - Chandrayaan-3.