As the date for lift-off nears for India’s first solar mission ‘Aditya-L1’, ISRO shared photos of satellite. The satellite arrived at Sathish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota from U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. ‘Aditya-L1’, India’s first solar mission is a space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun. ISRO is set to launch the ‘Aditya-L1’ mission to the sun on August 26 from PSLV-XL rocket. Initially, spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit; subsequently, using an on-board propulsion system, spacecraft will be put in Lagrange point L1. Spacecraft will carry 7 payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun. The total travel time from launch to L1 would take about four months for ‘Aditya-L1’.