Aditya L1 solar mission’s 1.5 million km journey over four months: Explained
Aditya L1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s first-ever solar mission, is set to be launched from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota on Friday. ISRO will launch the spacecraft at 11.50 am, days after Chandrayaan-3’s historic success, which landed on the Moon’s south pole last Wednesday.
Through Aditya L1, ISRO aims to place the craft in a “halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.” Through the mission, ISRO will study the impact of solar activities on space weather in real-time. The other key objectives of the unmanned mission also include understanding “coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, propagation of particles and fields, etc,” the space agency explained.
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