After the sucessful launch of the Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space agency, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is now preparing for its next launch — Aditya-L1— the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun.
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The mission is scheduled to launch on 26th of this month or early next month, aboard a PSLV-XL launch vehicle.
ISRO has shared the first images of the Aditya-L1 satellite.
On Monday ISRO announced that the spacecraft was assembled and integrated at the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru and has arrived at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
According to ISRO, the satellite shall be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses. This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities, and its effect on space weather in real time.
The Aditya-L1 mission will take around 109 Earth days after launch, to reach the halo orbit around the L1 point.
The mission will obtain near simultaneous images of the different layers of the Sun's atmosphere, which reveal the ways in which the energy may be channeled and transferred from one layer to another. Thus the Aditya-L1 mission will enable a comprehensive understanding of the dynamical processes of the Sun and address some of the outstanding problems in solar physics and heliophysics.
ISRO has shared the first images of the Aditya-L1 satellite.
PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 14, 2023
Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun ☀️, is getting ready for the launch.
The satellite realised at the U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Bengaluru has arrived at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota.
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On Monday ISRO announced that the spacecraft was assembled and integrated at the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru and has arrived at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
According to ISRO, the satellite shall be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses. This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities, and its effect on space weather in real time.
The Aditya-L1 mission will take around 109 Earth days after launch, to reach the halo orbit around the L1 point.
The mission will obtain near simultaneous images of the different layers of the Sun's atmosphere, which reveal the ways in which the energy may be channeled and transferred from one layer to another. Thus the Aditya-L1 mission will enable a comprehensive understanding of the dynamical processes of the Sun and address some of the outstanding problems in solar physics and heliophysics.
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