The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Aditya-L1 mission is set to be the country’s first dedicated solar mission. ISRO announced the launch of the Aditya-L1 satellite in April 2019, with a planned launch date sometime in 2023. The satellite is designed to study the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere. It will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1, which is located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. This will be the first time that India has launched a mission to study the Sun. The Aditya-L1 mission will also be used to test new technologies for future missions, including a sunshield and a miniaturised imaging spectrometer.