India's upcoming space missions

India is set to launch its next space venture, a mission to study Sun and its effect on space weather, days after the historical landing of its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the lunar south pole.

Here are highlights of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) upcoming missions:

ADITYA-L1 will be launched on September 2. The Aditya L1 is the first Indian space mission to study Sun. The spacecraft will be placed in an orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, about 1.5 million km from Earth, where the gravitational effects of both bodies cancel each other out.

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India's first crewed space mission plans to launch a crew of three to an orbit of 400 km (250 miles) for a three-day mission before landing in Indian waters.

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) SATELLITE:

 NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) is a low-Earth orbit observatory system jointly developed by NASA and ISRO. NISAR will map the entire planet once every 12 days, providing data for understanding changes in ecosystems, ice mass, vegetation biomass, sea level rise, groundwater and natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.