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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
06:20:00
Saturday September 2, 2023
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The Aditya-L1 mission will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. The 1,500 kg class satellite carries a total of seven payloads with diverse objectives, including but not limited to, the coronal heating problem, solar wind acceleration, coronal magnetometry, origin and monitoring of near-UV solar radiation (which drives Earth's upper atmospheric dynamics and global climate), coupling of the solar photosphere to chromosphere and corona, in-situ characterizations of the space environment around Earth by measuring energetic particle fluxes and magnetic fields of the solar wind and solar magnetic storms that have adverse effects on space and ground-based technologies.
Sun–Earth L1
1 Payload
1,475 kilograms
59th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2023
91st
Mission
7th
Mission of 2023
139th
Orbital launch attempt