Aditya-L1

Space is the new frontier: Time for India to increase strategic focus

India needs to consolidate its technological prowess and allocate increased funding and focus towards developing capabilities in the 'Near Space'

Solar mission Aditya L1 will reach destination on January 6: ISRO chairman

The mission, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was launched by ISRO on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota.

India's Aditya-L1 running as per schedule, to reach Lagrange Point 1 in first week of January

ISRO's Aditya-L1 is just days away from reaching its destination at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), and shall arrive at its destination in the first week of January 2024. The satellite has travelled approximately 1.5 million km from Earth

Solar wind particle experiment payload onboard Aditya-L1 starts operations, says ISRO

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first Sun-earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is located roughly 1.5 million km from Earth.

Aditya-L1 catches its first high-energy solar flare: What this means for the mission and ISRO

ISRO's Aditya-L1 caught its first high-energy solar flare this week, using High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS). Aditya-L1's HEL1OS was developed by the Space Astronomy Group of the U. R. Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO, Bengaluru

Not just Gaganyaan, ISRO busy with various exploration missions in pipeline, says Chairman Somanath

ISRO's Chairman S Somanath has revealed that India's space organisation is working on several exploration missions and has several launches lined up for the next few years. This also includes ISRO's plans to send humans to space

Aditya-L1 Update: ISRO performs vital manoeuvre, slingshots solar observatory to Lagrange Pt. 1

Aditya-L1 is finally on its way to L1 or Lagrange Point 1, after ISRO performed a manoeuvre that effectively helped the Aditya solar observatory sling shot out of Earth bound orbits. It will now take 110 days to reach Lagrange Point 1, where it will enter an orbit

Aditya L1 Mission: India’s Solar Observatory gets down to business, starts collecting valuable data

ISRO has shared an update stating that its Aditya-L1 solar observatory, is already hard at work and has started collecting data, before reaching Point L1. Aditya-L1's STEPS instrument has already been deployed. The observatory is 50,000 kms away from the Earth

Watch: Aditya-L1 shares an epic selfie with the Earth, Moon from its journey to the Sun

ISRO shared a video selfie that Aditya-L1 shot, with the Earth and the Moon in the background. ISRO's first solar observatory, Aditya-L1 is currently on its way to the Lagrange 1 point from where it will study the Sun in some detail

Strict Measures: Scientists, engineers working on Aditya-L1 weren’t allowed to wear perfumes for THIS reason

Aditya-L1's main payload was developed at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, under the strictest of conditions. The main payload is very sensitive to all kinds of particles and had to be made inside an industrial cleanroom, which was about 1,00,000X cleaner than those in the best of hospitals