India to launch first solar mission (Aditya-L1) in 2020
- ISRO has announced that India will launch its first mission to study the sun named Aditya-L1 in the year 2020.
- The mission Aditya-L1 is meant to observe the solar corona and to keep a permanent eye on the sun without any disturbance.
- Aditya-L1 mission is expected to be inserted in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) – which is 1.5 million km from the earth