After Chandrayaan-3 Indian Space Organisation Now Targets Sun (Image:www.instagram/isro.dos/)
After Chandrayaan-3, India is set to launch its first ever spacecraft targeting Sun now.
Aditya-L1, designed by the scientist of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre located in Andhra Pradesh”s Sriharikota. The date of launch is yet to be announced.
It is expected to launch by the first week of September 2023, says reports.
According to NDTV, Aditya-L1 is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona and study the solar atmosphere.
The spacecraft will study solar winds which causes disturbances on Earth and aurora which are formed from interactions between the solar wind streaming out from the sun as well as Earth”s protective magnetic field, or magnetosphere.
The project also aims at understanding how the sun impacts climate change on Earth.
The Aditya-L1 will hitch a ride on India”s heavy-duty launch vehicle, the PSLV, to travel 1.5 million kilometres.
It will take 125 days to reach at the Lagrange point 1 (L1). “We have to wait till then”, said the ISRO chief S Somanath.
Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. These points in space can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. Such points are named after the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
Aditya-L1 has been built at nearly half the cost of Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3 cost Rs 600 crore. The government sanctioned ₹ 378 crore in 2019 for the mission to study the Sun”s atmosphere. The ISRO hasn”t given an official update on costs yet.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is the national space agency of India. It operates as the primary research and development arm of the Department of Space, which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India.
