Tag: celestial bodies

Chandrayaan-3 was a very complex mission, calling for difficult maneuvering through delicate descent and soft-landing on the lunar surface, right? Indeed, it was, but Chandrayaan-3 is nothing compared with ISRO’s next mission, Aditya L-1.  ISRO has announced that the Aditya L-1 spacecraft would be launched on September 2, at 11:50 am, by a PSLV rocket. Aditya L-1 is by far the most complex mission ever undertaken by ISRO. It not only requires the spacecraft to be taken as far as 1.5 million km from the Earth, but also positioning it...