The PSLV-C57 was the 59th mission of
Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), which carried India's indigenously made solar observatory
Aditya-L1.
Launch
It was launched on Saturday, 02 September 2023 at 11:50
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. This was India's first Solar Observatory ever launched in history.
Aditya-L1 was injected into an elliptical orbit of 235x19500 km around the Earth. On 6 January 2024,
Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India's first solar mission, has successfully entered its final orbit with a period of approximately 180 days around the first Sun-Earth
Lagrangian point
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(L1), approximately 1.500 million kilometers from
Earth
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.
Mission overview
Primary payload:
Aditya-L1
PSLV configuration:
PSLV-XL
References
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Spacecraft launched by India in 2023
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