Carried Aditya-L1, India's first dedicated solar observatory, on a four-month journey toward a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point roughly 1.5 million km from Earth to study the corona, photosphere and solar wind.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 27 PSLV XL flights
- Date and time
- 2 September 2023, 06:20 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV XL
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 2023-132
- Launches in 2023
- 140th of 223
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