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The Aditya-L1 mission, which will mark India’s first mission to study the Sun, will allow India’s scientists to unlock new insights about the centre of our solar system | Latest News India

After the successful lunar landing mission, Chandrayaan-3, India has today embarked on its first solar mission. In a proud moment for the nation, the PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter lifted off successfully from Andhra Pradesh at 11.50 a.m. on September 2. 

He said that the information that this mission will provide is not just useful for ISRO or the Indian space program, but it's something that is sort of vital space weather for the world

Indias Aditya L1 mission aims to observe the Suns corona and understand its extreme heat. Astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury details the mission objectives. | Latest News India

Indias workhorse rocket PSLV successfully put its Aditya-L1 spacecraft to study the Sun into orbit on Saturday afternoon in a textbook style.

Indias first solar mission launch comes 10 days after the historic landing of the Chandrayaan-3. Aditya-L1, which will be placed in a halo orbit after a four-month journey, will study how the Suns radiations, heat and magnetic field affects us

Apart from deep space communication services, ESA will also provide support from all three of its 35-metre deep space antennas in Australia, Spain and Argentina to Aditya-L1

Days after scripting history by becoming the only nation to achieve a successful soft landing near the south pole of the moon, India added another feather to its space exploration cap on Saturday with the successful launch of the Aditya L1 mission.

Aditya will also be able to study the solar mass ejections, where, in extreme temperatures, the sun spits out flames

India has launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun and space weather, right on the heels of its historic moon landing.