Aditya L 1

Aditya L 1 is India's first mission to study sun and it's an 400kg class sapacecraft. The Aditya L 1 missions was conceptualised in January 2008. The space craft will be place into a halo orbit around the L 1 point (approximately 1.5 million km from earth). It is built in collaboration between the Indian space Research Organization and other Indian space Research institutes.

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Mission type - solar observation probe
Operater - ISRO
Mission duration - 5 years (planned)
Manufacturer - ISRO/UCAA/IIA
Launch date - 2020(planned)
Rocket - PSLV XL
Launch site - Satish dhawan space center

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instrument

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VELC - Visible Emission Line Coronograph
SUIT - Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
ASPEX - Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment
PAPA - Plasma Analyser Pakage For Aditya
SOLEX -  Solar Low Energy x-ray Spectrometer
HELIOS - High Energy L 1 orbiting x-ray Spectrometer

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