The spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 930,000 miles from earth, known as L-1.
A screen grab from the Indian Space Research Organisation's Youtube channel shows the Aditya-L1 spacecraft lift off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the space center in Sriharikota, India, Saturday.A screen grab from the Indian Space Research Organisation's Youtube channel shows the Aditya-L1 spacecraft lift off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the space center in Sriharikota, India, Saturday.
The spacecraft is equipped with seven payloads to study the sun's corona, chromosphere, photosphere and solar wind, the Indian Space Research Organization said."The vehicle has placed the satellite precisely into its intended orbit. India's first solar observatory has begun its journey to the destination of Sun-Earth L1 point," ISRO posted on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter.The satellite is scheduled to take 125 days to reach the L1 point.
Jitendra Singh, India's junior minister for science and technology, praised the ISRO officials for their work on the launch. The sun study, combined with India's successful moon landing, would completely change the image of the ISRO in the world community, said Manish Purohit, a former scientist at the research organization.
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