1. India’s first mission to study the Sun getting ready for launch: ISRO
Amidst all the excitement surrounding Chandrayaan-3, Bengaluru-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for another launch — a mission to study the Sun. Aditya-L1 would be the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.
According to the ISRO, the spacecraft was assembled and integrated at the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru and delivered to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota reportedly on August 14, 2023. The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system — a special vantage point from which four of the total seven payloads would directly view the Sun.
