During the program, researchers hope to gain more knowledge about our system’s main star.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that it will launch the first Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun. Hindustan Times reported this.
The spacecraft is planned to be launched into a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) at a distance of about 1.5 million km from Earth.
According to ISRO, the mission will be launched by a PSLV rocket from the Sathish Dhawan SHAR Space Center (SDSC SHAR) in Sriharikota. The spacecraft will first be launched into low earth orbit.
As the orbit becomes more elliptical, the spacecraft will be launched to L1 using the onboard thruster.
The total time from launch to L1 for Aditya-L1 will take around four months.
It is known that the spacecraft will carry seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outer layers of the Sun using different detectors.
Mission of PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1:
Aditya-L1, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun ☀️, is gearing up for launch.
The satellite realized at UR Rao Satellite Center (URSC), Bengaluru has arrived at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota.
More photos… pic.twitter.com/JSJiOBSHp1
— ISRO (@isro) August 14, 2023
Earlier it was reported that the Indian station Chandrayaan-3 (Chandrayan-3) successfully entered the orbit of the moon.
Source: korrespondent
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