ISRO chairman S. Somanath addresses in the course of the second version of India Space Congress 2023 occasion, in New Delhi on July 10, 2023.
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India’s maiden photo voltaic mission Aditya L1 will reach its destination, the Lagrangian level (L1) which is situated 1.5 million km from Earth, on January 6, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath stated right here on Friday.
The mission, the primary Indian space-based observatory to check the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was launched by ISRO on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota. “Aditya L1 will enter the L1 point on January 6. That is what is expected. Exact time will be announced at appropriate time,” Somanath instructed mediapersons on the sidelines of the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan organised by Vijnana Bharati, an NGO working to popularise science.
“When it reaches the L1 point, we have to fire the engine once again so that it does not go further. It will go to that point, and once it reaches that point, it will rotate around it and will be trapped at L1,” he stated. Once Aditya L1 reaches its destination, it will assist measure varied occasions occurring on the Sun for the following 5 years. “Once it is successfully placed on L1 point, it will be there for the next five years, gathering all the data which are very important not for India alone but for the entire world.
The data will be very useful to understand the dynamics of the Sun and how it affects our life,” the ISRO chief stated. How India goes to turn out to be a technologically highly effective nation is essential, he stated whereas addressing the gathering. ISRO has made a plan to construct an Indian area station, referred to as ‘Bharatiya space station’ in the course of the ‘Amrit Kaal’ as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directions, Somanath stated.
“In the space sector we are seeing an emergence of new actors. We are going to support, encourage and build the economy around the new generation,” he stated, including that India can’t turn out to be a pacesetter in every little thing and that it ought to focus on these sectors the place it will probably.
