On January 6, ISRO is scheduled to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft into its ultimate target orbit

On January 6, ISRO is scheduled to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft into its ultimate target orbit

On January 6, ISRO is scheduled to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft into its ultimate target orbit

The spacecraft will be launched into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system's Lagrange point 1 (L1), which is located around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, according to ISRO officials. One percent of the total distance between Earth as well as the Sun is represented by the L1 point.

On Saturday, ISRO prepared to carry out a crucial operation that would put the Aditya-L1 spacecraft—the first Indian observatory in space to study the Sun—into its ultimate orbit, which is around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

The spacecraft will be launched into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system's Lagrange point 1 (L1), which is located around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, according to ISRO officials. One percent of the total distance around Earth and the Sun is represented by the L1 point.

According to him, the main benefit of having a satellite in coronal orbit at the L1 point is that it can see the Sun constantly without any eclipses or eclipses. This allows for a higher advantage in real-time observation of solar activity and its effects on space weather.

"This maneuver will lock Aditya-L1 into a halo orbit around L1 at around 4 p.m. on Saturday. It is possible that it will go on traveling, maybe in the direction of the Sun, if we don't take that action," ISRO's On Friday, the official informed PTI.

On September 2 of last year, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft was launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) using the second rocket launch site of the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota.

Following a sixty-three-minute journey, the spacecraft was safely positioned into an elliptical orbit encompassing 235x19500 kilometers around the planet.

After that, the spacecraft made a number of adjustments and headed toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), where it left the Earth's sphere of influence.

The spacecraft is equipped with seven payloads that use electromagnetic, particle, and magnetic field detectors to study the photosphere, chromosphere, as well as the Sun's outermost layers, or corona.

"Using the special vantage point L1, four payloads observe the Sun completely and the remaining three payloads conduct in-situ studies of particles as well as fields at the Lagrange point L1, thereby facilitating important scientific studies of the propagation of the impacts of solar dynamics in interplanetary "Do. Moderate," according to the space agency.

It is anticipated that the suite of Aditya L1 payloads will provide "the most important information" for comprehending space weather dynamics, pre-flare and flare activities and their features, coronal mass ejection, coronal heating, and the issue of particle and field propagation. stated officials.

The Aditya-L1 mission's primary scientific goals are to study the dynamics of the solar upper atmosphere, including the chromosphere and corona.

- Research on partial ionized plasma physics, flare solar coronal mass ejection initiation, and chromospheric as well as coronal heating.

- Monitor in-situ settings of particles and plasma to get information for research on particle dynamics from the Sun.

- The solar corona's heating process and physics.

- Coronal and coronal loop plasma diagnosis using density, velocity, as well as temperature.

The genesis, evolution, and dynamics of the coronal mass ejection (CME).

Determine the order in which processes in the chromosphere, base, and extended corona occur in order to culminate in solar eruption episodes.

- Measurements of the magnetic field and structure in the solar corona.

- Space weather drivers (solar wind dynamics, composition, as well as origin).