ISRO's Ambitious Space Missions: From Moon to Sun and Beyond

India's first solar mission, Aditya-L1, has arrived at the spaceport in Sriharikota and is set to launch by the end of August or early September. The spacecraft will study various properties of the Sun, such as coronal mass ejections, from the first Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system. Aditya-L1 will be placed 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the L1 point, allowing for real-time observation of solar activities and their impact on space weather. The mission carries seven payloads to observe different layers of the Sun and conduct in-situ studies of particles and fields.