Aditya-L1 Spacecraft Separates From Launch Vehicle, On Way To Sun: ISRO
The Aditya-L1 spacecraft onboard a PSLV rocket today successfully got separated and would be proceeding on its journey towards the Sun on a 125-day voyage, ISRO said.
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The Aditya-L1 spacecraft onboard a PSLV rocket today successfully got separated and would be proceeding on its journey towards the Sun on a 125-day voyage, ISRO said.
The PSLV-C57.1 rocket successfully launched the Aditya-L1 orbiter from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 11.50 am on Saturday, following the historic lunar landing mission, Chandrayaan-3
ISRO successfully placed a lander on the unexplored lunar South Pole, a feat that put India in the record books as the first country to do so.
The country's maiden solar mission -- Aditya-L1 is all set to be launched today at 11:50 am from the launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. It will carry seven different payloads to have a detailed study of the sun, four of which will observe the light from the sun and the other three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields.
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