"aditya-l1"

Aditya-L1 is scheduled to be launched on September 2 at 11.50 am from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh

Giving an update on its Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun, ISRO said on Wednesday the launch rehearsal and the rocket's internal checks have been completed.

Shifting focus to its next space odyssey, the ISRO on Saturday said the country's maiden solar mission 'Aditya-L1' will "possibly" be launched on September 2

Aditya-L1 would be the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.

According to ISRO, the spacecraft will be placed into a halo orbit around the first Lagrange point, L1, of the Sun-Earth system