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Largest payload of Aditya-L1 spacecraft handed over to ISRO

The ISRO received the largest payload — Visible Line Emission Coronagraph (VELC) — which would fly on Aditya L1, India’s first dedicated scientific mission to study the Sun by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) at a function in Bengaluru. IIA has built the VELC at its Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) campus in Hoskote. ISRO will now conduct further testing of VELC and its eventual integration with the Aditya-L1 spacecraft.