Key Takeaways
- The Launch Rehearsal for India’s Aditya‑L1 Sun mission was successfully completed.
- ISRO will launch the satellite on Saturday using the PSLV‑C57 vehicle.
- Aditya‑L1 will be the first Indian observatory to study the Sun and its space‑weather impacts.
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday said the preparation for the maiden mission to explore the Sun is progressing.
The launch, scheduled for September 2 from the spaceport of Sriharikota, has completed its Launch Rehearsal.
The Aditya-L1 satellite, which will be the first space based Indian Observatory to study the Sun, will be launched by ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-C57 at 1150 hrs on Saturday.
It said the Vehicle Internal checks were also completed. In an post on PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission, ISRO said the preparations for the launch are progressing.
The Launch Rehearsal – Vehicle Internal Checks are completed. This will be the second major inter-planetary exploration by India in a short pan of ten days, after the Lander Module, onboard the Chandryaan-3 successfully soft landed on the dark side of the Moon
on August 23 and the Rover, deployed from it on the Lunar surface, started conducting in-situ chemical analysis of the region and has been sending images of the Moon.
