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VELC, recognised as the largest and most technically demanding payload aboard Aditya-L1, underwent integration, testing, and calibration at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics' (IIA) CREST campus in Hoskote, located nearby.
The Sun observatory mission will be fired from the second launch pad at this spaceport at 11.50 am on Saturday, and comes close on the heels of India's successful moon expedition last month, Chandrayaan-3.
Aditya-L1 will be launched by PSLV-C57 rocket on September 2 at 11:50 AM. It carries seven payloads to study the Sun. | Latest News India
The satellite is expected to be put into orbit in the middle of January and then we will do the test if all the systems are working properly and by the end of February we expect to get the regular data, says Prof Jagdev Singh