ADITYA Sun Space Mission of ISRO

ISRO is preparing to launch its first Mission to the Sun within 3-4 years.Mission code name is 'ADITYA'.Budgeted at Rs. 49 crore, Aditya-1 will be the first satellite specifically designed to study the Sun's Corona.The satellite will help to determine why solar flares and solar winds disturb the communication network and electronics on Earth.Initial technical studies have established that a PSLV-XL launcher would be able to place a satellite at a Halo Orbit around L1 point.

Five Instruments have been short-listed for the Sun Mission:-

1. Visible Emission Line Coronagraph

2. Solar Ultraviolet Image Telescope

3. Aditya Solar Wind Particle

Experiment

4. Solar Low Energy X-Ray

Spectrometer

5. High Energy L1 Orbiting X-Ray

Spectrometer.More could be added...