It will be the country’s first space observatory to study the Sun.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that the launch of the Aditya-L1 robotic space station is scheduled for September 2. The start was postponed several times already, then it became known that it would take place in early September, and now the exact date has been announced. This was reported in the ISRO account on the social network X (formerly Twitter). Aditya-L1 will be the first Indian station to study the Sun, the purpose of the mission is to study the solar corona, chromosphere and solar radiation in various spectra.
Indian station Aditya-L1 to be launched on September 2
It is reported that the Aditya-L1 launch will take place at 11:50 local time (09:20 Moscow time) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island in the Bay of Bengal. The space station will be launched into a halo orbit near the Lagrange point L1 of the Sun-Earth system at a distance of about 1.5 million km from the Earth, where the device can be stationary relative to the Earth and the Sun, which is convenient for observing the star. The scientific instruments on board the Aditya-L1 include spectrometers to study solar flares and a coronograph to observe their formation, instruments to measure solar radiation, instruments to study the solar wind, and a magnetometer to measure magnetic fields near the station.
