▲ India’s first solar observation satellite ‘Aditya L1’ launched Photo: Yonhap News
India, which recently emerged as a space power after successfully landing the world’s first lunar pole, has launched an artificial satellite for observing the sun this time.
It is India’s first solar observation mission, and if successful, it will be the first case in an Asian country.
Indian media reported that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the ‘Aditya L1’ satellite at 11:50 am local time on the 2nd from the Sriharikota Space Station in southern Andhra Pradesh.
Aditya means ‘sun’ in Sanskrit.
The Aditya L1 will be loaded on India’s domestic launch vehicle ‘PSLV C57’ and will fly about 1.5 million km to the target point, Lagrange 1, over 125 days.
When the Aditya L1, carrying seven instruments, settles into orbit around Lagrange 1, it will continue to observe the Sun unobstructed.
Here, the Aditya L1 will observe the solar atmosphere, including ‘corona heating’ and solar wind.
‘Coronal heating’ refers to the heating of the solar upper atmosphere, the corona, to keep it hot, but the heating process is still unknown.
Earlier, on the 23rd of last month, India succeeded in landing the unmanned lunar probe Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the moon for the first time in the world.
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2023-09-02 07:03:25
