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Aditya-L1

(2023 spacecraft viewing Sun and analyzing solar wind)

Aditya-L1 is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spacecraft launched September 2, 2023, studying the Sun from a halo orbit at Earth-Sun Lagrangian point L1, a useful and common orbital location for such studies. It studies the corona (it includes a coronagraph) and uses in situ instruments to study the solar wind and solar magnetic field. Instruments:


(spacecraft,Sun,L1)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya-L1
https://www.isro.gov.in/Aditya_L1.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022cosp...44..963C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023IAUS..372...17T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025SoPh..300...30T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025SoPh..300...66S/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21919
https://www.isro.gov.in/Aditya_L1_Mission_Completion_of_First_Halo_Orbit.html
https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/aditya-1
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qdy5dg7v7o
https://www.mpg.de/24282801/solar-probe-aditya-observes-flare
https://www.techexplorist.com/isro-aditya-l1-captures-powerful-solar-flare-rare-plasma-ejection/99386/

Referenced by pages:
Lagrangian point
solar physics

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