Chennai/UNI: India's maiden solar Exploratory Mission, ADITYA-L1 satellite, to take off in the coming days, will be carrying seven scientific payloads, indigenously developed by different laboratories in the country, to carry out systematic study of the Sun.
ISRO Aditya L-1 mission: The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, about 1.5 km from the Earth.
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Aditya the name in Sanskrit refers to the Sun is a coronagraphy spacecraft manufactured at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru to study the solar atmosphere.