ISRO's Aditya-L1 spacecraft successfully separated from its PSLV rocket, commencing a 125-day journey towards the Sun. The spacecraft was placed precisely in an elliptical orbit of 235 by 19,500 km, according to ISRO Chief S Somanath. Aditya-L1, weighing about 1,480.7 kg, is India's first observatory-class space mission designed to study the Sun's outer atmosphere. It aims to investigate coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), solar atmosphere dynamics, and temperature anisotropy. Positioned at the L1 Lagrange point, roughly 1.5 million km from Earth, Aditya-L1 will provide continuous solar observations for five years.
