Just weeks after the historic Chandrayaan-3 success, ISRO launched Aditya-L1, India's first dedicated solar observation mission. The spacecraft was placed in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
Mission Overview
Aditya-L1 carries seven scientific payloads to observe the solar corona, solar emissions, solar wind, and magnetic fields. Positioned at L1, approximately 1.5 million km from Earth, it has an uninterrupted view of the Sun.
Scientific Objectives
The mission studies coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, coronal mass ejections, space weather dynamics, and the propagation of particles and fields in the interplanetary medium.
Global Significance
India became only the fifth space agency (after NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNSA) to place a spacecraft at a Lagrange point, demonstrating advanced orbital mechanics capabilities.