PSLV-XL | Aditya-L1
Indian Space Research OrganizationSatish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad — Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Aditya-L1
- Type
- Heliophysics
- Target orbit
- Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)
Aditya L1 is an Indian solar observation satellite to be placed at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L1. The major scientific objectives of the mission are to achieve a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that heat the solar corona, accelerate the solar wind and produce Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Originally the mission design started as a small LEO satellite carrying only a coronagraph as a payload. In order to get the best science from the Sun, continuous viewing of the Sun is preferred. A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- PSLV XL
- Family
- PSLV
- Variant
- XL
- Provider
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Type
- Government
- Country
- IND
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launch site
- Pad
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad
- Location
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Country
- IND
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 13.7199, 80.2304