Aditya L1 path: A Solar Journey

• Indian solar mission to study

the Sun from a substantial
distance of 1.5 million
kilometres.
• First space based observatory.
• Aditya L1 will spend 5.2 years
orbiting Lagrange Point 1, and
it will take 125 days to reach
that point.
• Launch was conducted using A
PSLV C-57 rocket.
Lagrange Points

• Lagrange points are special

positions in space where
the gravitational forces of
two large orbiting bodies,
such as the Sun and the
Earth, balance each other
out.
• There are total 5 L1 points
on Orbital Plane
 Payloads
1. Visible Emission Line
Chronograph(VELC)
2. Solar Ultraviolet Imaging
Telescope(SUIT)
3. Solar Low Energy X-Ray
Spectrometer(SoLEXS)
4. High Energy L1 Orbiting X-
ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS)
5. Aditya Solar wind Particle
Experiment (ASPEX)
6. Plasma Analyser Package for
Aditya (PAPA)
7. Advanced Tri-axial High
Resolution Digital Magnetometers
Why study the
sun?