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Aditya 1 launch delayed to 2015-16

The launch of Aditya 1, which was initially proposed at 2012, by then ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair in 2008, will now set sail for space only in 2015-16, plausibly due to unanticipated issues related to instrument designing, fabrication and development, according to experts working on the project
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Aditya-1, India's first space-based solar coronagraph which will be launched in a couple of years to study solar corona (plasma 'atmosphere' of the sun), will be 100% indigenous.
The advisory committee for space research, entrusted with the task of formulating the configuration for the coronagraph, has decided that critical components such as optical mirrors and the detector systems would be indigenously developed.
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The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics was developing a payload for Indian Space Research Organisation's proposed solar mission Aditya to study the Sun's outermost region corona, a scientist of the institute said on Monday.

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After the success of Chandrayaan -1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has conceptually developed a Sun mission called 'Aditya'.

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With the moon as the first stepping stone, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will embark upon several deep space missions that include sending a lunar rover to the moon by 2012.
Another mission, Aditya, will be undertaken to study the sun. Other planned missions will be to the Mars and an asteroid.

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 India's space agency, readying for a mission to the moon, is also planning to launch a satellite, Aditya, to study the sun, parliament was informed Wednesday.

"Aditya will carry an instrument intended to study the outmost region of the sun, called corona. It will also study the coronal mass ejection and the crucial physical parameters of space weather, such as, the coronal magnetic field structures and evolution of the coronal magnetic field"  -  Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office.

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