The Aditya-L1 satellite will be placed 1.5 million kilometers from Earth to record solar activity, in particular solar wind dynamics (continuous emission of subatomic particles from the solar corona) and their effects on space weather.
Aditya, meaning Sun in Hindi, has seven modules to observe two of the outer layers of the sun – the photosphere and the chromosphere – and detectors of electromagnetic fields and particles.
PSLV-C57/️Aditya-L1 Mission:
The launch of Aditya-L1,
the first Indian observatory in space to study the sun ☀️ is planned
️September 2, 2023, at
11:50 am. IST from Sriharikota.Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery on… pic.twitter.com/bjhM5mZNrx
-ISRO (@isro) August 28, 2023
Europe and the United States already have probes, Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar, that observe the sun, but this is the first time India has started studying the star, after becoming the first country to launch a spacecraft on Wednesday. the star has landed. south pole of the moon, an unexplored area where there will be large amounts of ice water.
It is in this region that the United States aims to place the first female astronaut and the first black astronaut in December 2025, under the new Artemis lunar program.
Only the United States had astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972, all of them male, under the Apollo program.
Source: DN
