India's first space mission Aditya-L1 launched

• Indian Space Research Organization launched Mission Aditya L1 aboard PSLV C57 from Sriharikota Space Center at 11.50 am.

• Aditya-L1 is ISRO's second astronomy observatory-series mission after Astrosat (2015).

• It will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point L1 of the Sun-Earth system.

• Aditya-L1 will travel approximately 100 days to cover the distance of 1.5 million km to L1.

• Aditya L1 mission will be active for five years. It will spend its entire mission life orbiting in an irregularly shaped orbit around L1.