Aditya-Ll is India's first solar space observatory and will be launched by the PSLV-C57. In a remote location near the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L1, which is around 1.5 kilometres from Earth, Aditya L1 will examine the solar corona. ISRO chief S Somanath said that it is an important launch and the satellite will take 125 days to reach the L1 point. Aditya-Ll is India's first solar space observatory and will be launched by the PSLV-C57. For solar observations, Joseph Louis Lagrange, a mathematician, discovered the Lagrangian points, of which the L1 point is regarded as the most important.

Source: dna September 02, 2023 10:59 UTC