ISRO to launch India's 1st solar mission in first half of 2020

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the nation's first mission to the Sun, Aditya-L1, aimed at studying its corona. ISRO Chairman K Sivan had revealed the mission is planned to be launched in the first half of 2020. Aditya-L1 satellite will be inserted in a halo orbit around 'L1', 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth.