ISRO to Launch Aditya sL-1 Mission

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch ‘Aditya-L1’, the first Indian mission to study the sun, by the year 2020.

ISRO Director Mylswamy Annadurai, while recently revealing the space agency’s plans, also said that the space organisation is planning to launch four more important satellites in the next three months and is working to launch 70 satellites in the next three years.

About the Aditya-L1 Mission

• The 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 800 km low earth orbit.
• A Satellite placed in ....