Kathmandu, Sep 2: ISRO has launched its Solar Mission “Aditya-L1” today at 11:50 am in the afternoon successfully from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. It is the India’s first solar mission. The spacecraft will travel 1.5 Million Kilometers and reach outer atmosphere of Sun for 125 days voyage which marks to be around 4 months of time.

The Aditya L-1 spacecraft will stay in Earth's orbit for sixteen days. After four months of journey, the satellite will be placed on the L1 point in the halo orbit around the Sun. 

As per ISRO, the mission's objective includes understanding chromospheric and coronal heating, solar atmosphere, solar wind,  the physics of the partially ionised plasma, formation of the coronal mass, ejections and flares. This mission will give us more details about the space weather and the solar atmosphere. It will intend to calculate the temperature, velocity and density of outermost layer of the sun.