New Delhi: The countdown for the launch of India's maiden solar mission, Aditya L1, has begun, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) said on Friday.
"The 23-hour 40-minute countdown leading to the launch at 11:50 Hrs. IST on September 2, 2023, has commenced today at 12:10 hrs," ISRO said.
India is going to launch its first space craft to study the sun, Aditya L1 mission, after the successful and historical landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon.
The mission aims to observe various solar activities and their effects on space weather in real time.
The spacecraft would be launched by PSLV-C57 rocket. The Aditya-L1 mission aims at studying the Sun from an orbit around the L1. It will carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun, the corona, in different wavebands.
Aditya-L1 is a fully indigenous effort.
