The ministry has asked all the higher education institutions to promote the portal and publicise the special course modules among the students and teachers.
ISRO Chairman S Somanath says exploring Venus will help answer questions about the planet and Earth s future. Several missions are in the pipeline, with Venus already configured.
The spacecraft will remain in the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 trajectory for 110 days before being inserted into an orbit around the point where the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth on the spacecraft will be completely balanced.
India s Aditya-L1 space-based solar observatory has started collecting scientific data, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) instrument is measuring supra-thermal and energetic ions and electrons at distances more than 50,000 km from Earth. The data collected will help scientists analyse the behaviour of particles surrounding Earth. STEPS, a part of the Aditya Solar Wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) payload, consists of six sensors observing in different directions and measuring ions and electrons at various energy levels.