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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 India's 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".