21 August 2016

"Aditya-L1" ISRO Satellite to Study the Sun by 2020

Mylswamy Annadurai, the director of ISRO satellite center at Bengaluru said the Indian space agency plans to send a satellite named Aditya-L1 to study the Sun by 2020. This will be the first of such missions by India. Speaking to media, he said that India targets the launch of 70 satellites in three years. India's next moon mission, Chandrayan II, will land on the moon to study the lunar surface.