India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 takes off
This spacecraft will travel 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, which is 1% of the distance between Earth and the Sun.
KATHMANDU: India has begun an investigation into the Sun.
India has launched its first solar mission, a week after the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon’s south pole.
The spacecraft, known as Aditya-L1, took off from Sriharikot at 11:50 a.m. local time on Saturday, September 2. Sriharikot is India’s top satellite launch facility.
This spacecraft will travel 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, which is 1% of the distance between Earth and the Sun.
According to the Indian Space Agency, this spacecraft will take four months to reach Lagrange Point.
The Lagrange Point is the point at which the Sun’s and Earth’s gravitational forces are equal. A chemise neutral point is constructed here, where the spaceship will burn the least amount of fuel.
According to ISRO, the spacecraft is carrying “seven scientific payloads for the systematic study of the sun”, all of which were indigenously developed in collaborations between India’s space agency and scientific institutes.
