launched from India

Aditya-L1

Success
SEP 02202306:20:00 UTC

First ISRO mission dedicated to the study of the Sun. After a cruise of about four months the spacecraft entered a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point, about 1.5 million km from Earth toward the Sun, on 6 January 2024, the first Indian satellite to reach it.

launched from SLP Satish

aboard PSLV XL C57 into Sun-Earth L1

Broadcast

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Payload

Aditya-L1

Heliophysics

last updated Oct 9, 2026