Aditya L1 solar mission will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real time
To study the outer atmosphere of the sun, India on Saturday successfully launched its maiden solar mission Aditya L1 from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
 
The ISRO’s trusted workhorse, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) launched the country’s Aditya L1 mission that is expected to reach around the Lagrange point, near the sun in 125 days.
 
Launch of Aditya L1 by PSLV-C57 was accomplished successfully with the satellite placed “precisely” into its intended orbit, ISRO said.
 
The spacecraft carried with it seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere, and the outermost layers of the Sun (the corona) using electromagnetic and particle and magnetic field detectors. All seven payloads, as per ISRO, were developed indigenously; five by ISRO itself and two by Indian academic institutes.
 
According to the Department of Space, through various orbit raising manoeuvres and the cruise phase over about the next four months, Aditya L1 will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, which is lying about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
 
As per the Department of Space said, a satellite placed in the halo orbit around L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the sun without any occultation or eclipse. 
 
The Department further said that Aditya L1 mission is expected to provide the most crucial information to understand the problem of coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, propagation of particles and fields etc.
 
Earlier, congratulating ISRO scientists and engineers for the successful launch of the maiden solar mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on X, “After the success of Chandrayaan-3, India continues its space journey. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers at ISRO for the successful launch of India’s first Solar Mission, Aditya-L1. Our tireless scientific efforts will continue in order to develop a better understanding of the Universe for the welfare of entire humanity.”
 
Terming launch of Aditya L1 mission as India’s “sunshine moment," Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, “Coming close on the heels of successful Chandrayaan-3 landing, the successful launch of Aditya L1 is a testimony to the ‘whole of science and the whole of nation’ approach.”