ISRO's Aditya-L1 expected to be launched this year

According to the Indian space agency's former chief, A.S. Kiran Kumar, the Aditya-L1 mission will launch this year.

AstroSat is an observatory dedicated to astronomy that India has launched into space. The Mars Orbiter Mission has studied Mars for 7 years.Several national institutes have collaborated on it throughout the years, providing data that has been used for many important studies in astronomy.

The Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft is in good health, and all its payloads are operational. It can continue to be functional for many more years. The data collected thus far have already led to a number of publications" said.

He added that JAXA and ISRO will be collaborating on a lunar exploration mission in the future.

The workshop was supported by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and hosted by the Aryabhatta Research Institute for Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.

Part of the activities commemorating "75 years of India's Independence: Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav" at ARIES, the five-day workshop had a theme for each day - Earth, Air, and Spaceflight, Exploration, Space Radiation & Biology, Space Situational Awareness & Opportunities.

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