According to RT, the first solar observation spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was launched by the PSLV rocket, with the mission of observing sunlight and measuring plasma and magnetic field parameters.
Ahead of the launch, ISRO Director Somanath said that the Aditya L1 satellite would take 125 days to reach the designated Lagrangian (L1) point, named after Italian astronomer Joseph Louis Lagrange.
ISRO's Aditya-L1 spacecraft was launched from Sriharikota, on its journey to explore the Sun on September 2. (Photo: AFP)
After launch, Aditya-L1 will remain in orbit around the Earth for 16 days, after which it will be activated five times to achieve the necessary velocity for the solar exploration journey. The probe will be placed in a fixed orbit of the Sun-Earth system and will continue to orbit the Sun to collect data. According to ISRO, Aditya-L1 is still about 1.5 million km away from Earth.
The Aditya L1 spacecraft is expected to provide important information for understanding solar phenomena such as the heating of the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona, as well as the phenomena of magnetic field and plasma discharges from the corona, and the activity of radioactive rays.
Data collected by the solar probe will help India train astronauts for the Gaganyaan mission, the country’s first manned space mission. Testing is scheduled to begin in October.
(Source: Tin Tuc Newspaper/RT)
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