ADITYA-1

♤ Aditya-I is India's first dedicated scientific mission to study the sun. This is a low-earth orbit (LEO) mission at an altitude of 800 km.

♤ These studies will enhance our current understanding of the Solar Corona and also provide vital data for space weather studies.

♤ The satellite will carry as its payload an advanced solar coronagraph.

♤ The other payloads will include an ultraviolet imager telescope to observe the entire solar disc for solar storms, a high energy x-ray imager to scan smaller region of the solar disc to study flares, a wind particle detector to sample the solar wind, a soft x-ray spectrometer and a variable emission coronagraph.