The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated on Monday (Aug. 28) that the Aditya-L1 solar observatory is set to launch on Saturday (Sept. 2) at 2:20 a.m. EDT (0620 GMT; 11:50 local India time).
The spacecraft will launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the island of Sriharikota, close off the east coast of India, atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Aditya-L1 mission will focus on the sun-powered air, sun-oriented enticing tempests, and their impact on the climate around Earth. A coronagraph, a brilliant imaging telescope driven by the sun, and an X-beam screen, among other things, will be among the seven payloads carried by the expedition. Scientists will be better able to understand the Sun and its impact on the current state of the World thanks to the data obtained by the Aditya-L1 mission.
If everything goes according to plan, India will launch its first spacecraft this weekend to study the sun.
What does the Aditya-L1 solar observatory’s mission entail?
The 1,475-kg spacecraft for the Aditya-L1 mission will be launched into orbit around the Earth by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). It is more than two times lighter than the spaceship going to the Moon and will carry seven scientific payloads.
The initial Lagrange point of the sun-earth system, Aditya L1, is where ISRO intends to orbit the spacecraft in a halo orbit. Since the gravitational pulls of the two large bodies will cancel each other out and cause the spacecraft to travel with them, it will stay in this location. Not only will this position provide an unobstructed view of the sun, but it will also use less fuel overall.
| Category(Type) | S.N | Payload | Capability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote Sensing Payloads | 1 | Visible Emission Line Coronagraph(VELC) | Corona/Imaging & Spectroscopy |
| 2 | Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) | Photosphere and Chromosphere Imaging- Narrow & Broadband | |
| 3 | Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) | Soft X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation | |
| 4 | High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer(HEL1OS) | Hard X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation | |
| In-situ Payloads | |||
| 5 | Solar wind/Particle Analyzer Protons and heavier Ions with directions | Solar wind/Particle Analyzer Electrons and heavier Ions with directions | |
| 6 | Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA) | Advanced Tri-axial High-Resolution Digital Magnetometers | |
| 7 | Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers | In-situ magnetic field (Bx, By and Bz). |
The mission’s seven payloads will be used to observe the photosphere, the Sun’s visible surface, the corona, its outermost layer, and the chromosphere, its middle atmospheric layer. It is challenging to do research based on the radiations from the Sun because many of these radiations cannot be detected by instruments on Earth. This emphasizes the significance of the ISRO mission.
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