Aditya-L1
- Aditya L1 shall be the first space based Indian mission to study the Sun.
- The satellite shall be inserted in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth
system, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1
point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses.
- The spacecraft carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun (the corona) using electromagnetic and particle detectors.
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- Using the special vantage point of L1, four payloads directly view the Sun and the remaining carry out in-situ studies of particles and fields.