ISRO aiming for the Aditya L1 the Sun Mission; on this date
Following the completion of the Chandrayaan 3 mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation is preparing to launch the country’s first Sun mission, Aditya L1, within the next 14 days.
Nilesh M Desai, director of Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, announced on Saturday that it could launch on September 2.
Aditya L1 the sun Mission:
The satellite, launched from the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru, has arrived at the SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, and is now on the launch pad.
“We are planning an Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun.” “It is ready and positioned on the launch pad…there is a possibility that it will be launched on September 2,” Desai told news agency ANI.
What ISRO says about the sun mission:
The spacecraft will be placed in a “halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is around 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth,” according to the ISRO.
According to the ISRO, the chosen site is vital for continuously viewing the star without occultation/eclipses.
One of the mission’s primary goals is to track the impact of solar activity on space weather in real-time. ISRO intends to learn more about “coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, particle and field propagation, and so on” through the project.
The seven payloads of L1:
According to the ISRO, Aditya L1 will have seven payloads that will observe the Sun’s photosphere, chromosphere, and outermost layers. The module will have electromagnetic particle and magnetic field detectors to conduct the experiments.
Four of the seven payloads will be engaged in direct observation of the Sun from the exceptional vantage point L1.
At the same time, the other three will conduct particle and field research at that point to determine the impacts of solar dynamics in the interplanetary medium.
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