Successful launch of the Aditya L1 solar mission from Sriharikota
Aditya L1, India’s first space-based solar mission, was successfully launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Saturday at 11.50 a.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Aditya L1 is the first space-based observatory class solar mission from India, and it will orbit the planet at a distance of around 1.5 million kilometers. Over the next four years, the solar mission will investigate the sun’s outer atmosphere.
The Aditya L1 won’t touch down on the Sun. It will be positioned in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system’s Lagrange Point L1. Aditya L1 will travel 1.5 million kilometers and arrive to its destination in 125 days.
Aditya L1 spacecraft is carrying seven payloads – Visible Emission Line Coronagraph(VELC), Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer(HEL1OS), Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment(ASPEX), Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA), and Advanced Tri-axial High-Resolution Digital Magnetometers.
Aditya L1 will aid ISRO in its investigation of the solar magnetic field. Analysis of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles released by the Sun, will be another goal of the mission. Additionally, the impact of solar activity on Earth will be researched.
After Chandrayaan 3’s momentous Moon landing, the solar mission will solidify India’s position among the world’s leading space powers. India became the first nation in the world to land Chandrayaan 3 close to the Moon’s south pole on August 23. The Aditya L1 solar mission will provide India’s ambitious space program the much-needed boost it needs, building on the lunar landing’s demonstration of India’s expanding technical competence.
