After Moon and Mars, Sun is ISRO’s next destination

The project, aimed at comprehensive understanding of the dynamic processes of the Sun, has been approved and the Aditya-L1 mission, will be launched during the 2019-2020 timeframe by ISRO’s workhorse PSLV-XL from Sriharikota. 

ISRO, on  its site on Tuesday, said Aditya-1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), and was planned to launch in a 800km low earth orbit. “The Aditya-1 has now been revised to ‘Aditya-L1 Mission’ and will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which was 1.5 million km from the Earth.