- By Radha Basnet
- Sat, 02 Sep 2023 07:21 AM (IST)
- Source:PTI
India Sun Mission Launch: After Cnadhrayaan-3's successful landing on the moon's south pole, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now all set to launch Aditya-L1, the nation's first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun on September 2. ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the countdown for the Aditya-L1 launch will start on Friday.
Aditya-L1, the country’s ambitious solar mission, is scheduled to be launched on September 2 at 11: 50 AM from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.
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It will be the first dedicated Indian space mission for observations of the Sun to be launched by the Indian space agency.
"We are just getting ready for the launch. The rocket and satellite are ready. We completed the rehearsal for the launch. So tomorrow we have to start the countdown for the day after tomorrow's launch," Somanath said on Thursday, PTI reported. "After launch, we will see further," he added.
On the ongoing Chandrayaan 3 mission, where the rover Pragyan is currently moving around on the lunar surface, the ISRO chief said, "Everything is working very healthy and we are hopeful that by the end of 14 (earth) days, our mission will be successfully completed."
On August 23, Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon's south pole. With this, India became the fourth country in the world to achieve this feat and the first to land on the lunar south pole. Chandrayaan-3 mission was launched on July 14 from India's main space centre in Andhra Pradesh which successfully entered lunar orbit on August 5.
(With Inputs From Agencies)
