Sriharikota: The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter, lifted off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 11.50 am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The successful launch of the maiden solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) came on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission \u2014 Chandrayaan-3.<\/p>\n
The ISRO successfully placed a lander on the unexplored lunar South Pole, a feat that put India in the record books as the first country to do so.
\nAccording to the agency, the Aditya-L1 mission is expected to reach the observation point in four months.<\/p>\n
It will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million km away from the Earth in the direction of the sun.<\/p>\n
It will carry seven different payloads to have a detailed study of the sun, four of which will observe the light from the sun, and the other three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields.<\/p>\n
The largest and technically most challenging payload on Aditya-L1 is the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph or VELC.<\/p>\n
VELC was integrated, tested, and calibrated at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics\u2019 CREST (Centre for Research and Education in Science Technology) campus in Hosakote in collaboration with ISRO.
\nThis strategic location will enable Aditya-L1 to continuously observe the sun without being hindered by eclipses or occultation, allowing scientists to study solar activities and their impact on space weather in real time. Also, the spacecraft\u2019s data will help identify the sequence of processes that lead to solar eruptive events and contribute to a deeper understanding of space weather drivers.<\/p>\n
Major objectives of India\u2019s solar mission include the study of the physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, the solar wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and flares and near-earth space weather.<\/p>\n
According to the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics, the atmosphere of the sun, the corona, is what is seen during a total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n
A coronagraph like the VELC is an instrument that cuts out the light from the disk of the sun and can thus image the much fainter corona at all times.<\/p>\n
Earlier, on August 23, India became the fourth country after the US, China, and Russia to have successfully placed a lander on the moon\u2019s surface.
\nAfter the historic touchdown, the \u2018Vikram\u2019 lander and the \u2018Pragyan\u2019 rover performed different set tasks on the lunar surface, including finding the presence of sulphur and recording relative temperature.<\/p>\n
The stated objectives of Chandrayaan-3, India\u2019s third lunar mission, were a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface, the rover moving on the moon\u2019s surface, and in-situ scientific experiments.<\/p>\n
Chandrayaan-3 is the ISRO\u2019s follow-up attempt after the Chandrayaan-2 mission faced challenges during its soft landing on the lunar surface in 2019 and was eventually deemed to have failed its core mission objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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