Home / Aditya-L1 Mission : Completion of First Halo Orbit July 2, 2024 Today, Aditya - L1 spacecraft has completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point. The Aditya-L1 mission is an Indian solar observatory at Lagrangian point L1 , launched on September 2, 2023 and was inserted in its targeted halo orbit on January 6, 2024. Aditya-L1 is India’s first space-based solar mission to study the Sun . It was launched on September 2, 2023, by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1). Aditya - L1 is the very first Indian planetary mission , which ISRO is carrying out to study the Sun, especially concerning the outermost layers, that is, the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. Put at the L1 Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun, Aditya - L1 endeavors to deepen our understanding of solar activities and their bearing on space weather. Aditya - L1 is a spacecraft that studies the Sun from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point. It carries seven payloads to observe the Sun's photosphere, chromosphere and corona using electromagnetic and particle detectors.
