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Aditya (space craft)

Space craft
NameAditya
OperatorIndian Space Research Organisation
Mission TypeSolar study
Satellite ofEarth
Launch date2012 from Sriharikota, India
Launch vehicleGSLV
Mass100 kg

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Aditya, () ) is a space craft whose mission is to study the Sun. It was conceptualised by the Advisory Committee for Space Research in January 2008. It has been designed and will be built and launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair announced the approval of this mission on 10 November 2008.

Aditya is proposed to be sent to space by 2012 to study the solar corona. This part of the Sun has temperatures of over one million degrees, with raging solar winds that reach a velocity of up to 1000 km a second. The satellite will carry as its payload an advanced solar coronagraph.

It will be a small 100 kg (220.5 lb) satellite projected to cost about 50 Crore-1, and likely to be placed into a near earth orbit of 600 km. The spacecraft's mission will be to study the fundamental problems of coronal heating, and other phenomena that take place in the Earth's magnetosphere.

This is one of the first scheduled projects in a road map formulated by the Advisory Committee for Space Research. This committee comprises individuals from the ISRO Satellite Centre, Udaipur Solar Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Radio Astronomy Centre, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, and several universities.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Satellites
Earth observationBhaskara Satellite series * IRS * Cartosat 1 * Cartosat 2 * Cartosat 2A * Cartosat 3 * Oceansat-2
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fleet
Expendable launch systemSLV * ASLV * PSLV * GSLV * GSLV-Mk III
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ObservatoriesIndian Astronomical Observatory * Ooty Radio Telescope
InstitutionsNational Atmospheric Research Laboratory
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research * Raman Research Institute * Indian Institute of Astrophysics * Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics * Department of Space * Antrix Corporation * Aerospace Command * Defence Research and Development Organisation * IIST
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AstronautsRakesh Sharma * Ravish Malhotra
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