India:ISRO Launches Aditya-L1 Solar Mission

September 2, 2023 - PatialaPolitics

India:ISRO Launches Aditya-L1 Solar Mission

India has launched its first mission to the Sun this morning, just days after becoming the first country in history to achieve a soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon’s uncharted south pole.

 

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is an unmanned observation satellite that India’s space agency (Isro) wants to use to monitor the Sun’s activities, and learn more about how these impact space weather phenomena such as solar storms.