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Aditya L1 launch update:Days after its spectacular Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to aim for the Sun with its maiden solar expedition..
The space agency will shoot its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) that will carry the Aditya-L1 mission on a 125-day voyage.The mission will be launched from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 11.50 am on Saturday...
The solar mission is being carried out to study the Sun from a vantage point at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth...
Isro has designedAditya-L1 to look into the solar corona and conduct in-situ observations of the solar wind Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth...
Isro has said that there are five Lagrangian points between the Sun and the Earth, and the L1 point in the Halo orbit would provide a greater advantage of continuously viewing the Sun.The L1 position will allow continuous observation of the Sun without eclipses...
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