India is set to launch its next space venture, a mission to study the sun and its effect on space weather, days after the historical landing of its Chandrayaan-3 space craft on the lunar south pole.
Here are highlights of Indian Space Research Organisation's upcoming and past missions:Slated for launch on Sept. 2, the Aditya L1 is the first Indian space mission to study the sun. The spacecraft will be placed in an orbit around the Lagrange point 1 of the Sun-Earth system, about 1.5 million km from earth, where the gravitational effects of both bodies cancel each other out.
No official kickoff date has been announced, but ISRO has said the mission will most likely be ready in 2024.NASA-ISRO SAR is a low-Earth orbit observatory system jointly developed by NASA and ISRO. NISAR will map the entire planet once every 12 days, providing data for understanding changes in ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, ground water and natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.
* Chandrayaan-2 - In 2019, ISRO launched its second moon mission, its first attempt to study the lunar south pole. The mission included an orbiter, lander and rover, and was launched amid high expectations. Although it deployed the orbiter successfully, the lander crashed.
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