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ADITYA-L1

OperationalPlanetary ScienceDeep Space

Aditya-L1 is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by ISRO and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) between the Earth and the Sun, where it will study the solar atmosphere, solar magnetic storms, and their impact on the environment around the Earth.

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Launch

Launch date
September 2, 2023 at 06:20 AM UTC
Launch site
Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
Launched by
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Operator
Indian Space Research Organization
Mission
Aditya-L1
Launch record
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Trajectory

Regime
Interplanetary — Deep Space
Reference body
Deep Space

Identity

COSPAR (Int'l)
2023-132A
NORAD catalog №
57754
Object type
Payload
Owner / operator
IndiaIndia
Status
Operational