Planetary Science
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
- PSLV XL →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Mission
- Aditya-L1
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Deep Space
- Reference body
- Deep Space
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 1,480 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2023-132A
- NORAD catalog №
- 57754
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Status
- Operational