Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced yesterday that it will launch its first spacecraft to survey the Sun on Sept. 2 at 11.50 am, days after it created history by reaching close to the south pole of the Moon from where its Chandrayaan-3 has been sending the first readings about the atmosphere and the surface.
The solar mission will be carried out by the Aditya-L1, which will be launched from the Sriharikota spaceport on ISRO's workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. After travelling 125 days to reach a distance of 1.5 million km from the Earth, it will stay put for an as yet unannounced duration of time.
