ISRO Upcoming Satellite Aditya-1

From committing to 50 satellite launches in the next three years to setting a date for Chandrayaan-2’s lift-off, ISRO chief K Sivan announced a series of space programmes to cement India’s position in the international space fraternity.

Scheduled to be launched sometime in the next two years, the Aditya-L1 mission was originally christened Aditya-1 and was conceived as a 400-kg class satellite carrying just one payload: the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph. It was scheduled to be launched in an 800-kilometre low-earth orbit.

The primary payload on the Aditya-L1 satellite will, however, continue to be the coronagraph, which is meant to observe the solar corona. A corona is an aura of plasma that envelopes the Sun and other stars and is visible to the naked eye during a total solar eclipse