India is preparing to launch its first satellite to study the Sun on Saturday after a probe landed last week, the Indian Space Research Organization announced on the X social network (formerly Twitter) on Monday.
The Aditya-L1 satellite will be positioned 1.5 million kilometers from Earth to record solar activity, in particular the dynamics of solar winds (continuous emission of subatomic particles from the solar corona) and their effects on space weather.
PSLV-C57/️Aditya-L1 Mission:
The launch of Aditya-L1,
the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun ☀️, is scheduled to
️September 2, 2023, at
11:50 a.m. STI of Sriharikota.Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery in… pic.twitter.com/bjhM5mZNrx
-ISRO (@isro) August 28, 2023
Aditya, which means Sun in Hindi, has seven modules to observe two of the outer layers of the Sun – the photosphere and the chromosphere – and detectors for electromagnetic fields and particles.
Europe and the United States already have the Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar probes observing the Sun, but this is the first time that India has embarked on the study of the star, after last Wednesday becoming the first country to land a device space on the Sun. south pole of the Moon, an unexplored region where there will be large amounts of frozen water.
It is in this region that the United States wants to place the first female astronaut and the first black astronaut in December 2025, within the framework of the new Artemis lunar program.
Only the United States had astronauts on the surface of the Moon, between 1969 and 1972, all men, as part of the Apollo program.
Source: TSF
