Preparations within the last part for the launch of PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission.
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The countdown for the launch of India’s first solar observatory mission, Aditya-L1 has commenced on the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
“The countdown leading to the launch at 11:50 Hrs. IST on September 2, 2023 has commended,” ISRO posted on X (previously Twitter).
The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is scheduled to be launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on September 2, 2023, at 11:50 a.m. from Sriharikota.
This is the 59th flight of the PSLV and the twenty fifth mission utilizing the PSLV-XL configuration.
The PSLV will launch Aditya-L1 spacecraft in a extremely eccentric Earth sure orbit.
According to ISRO the spacecraft shall be positioned in a halo orbit across the Lagrange level 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
“A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses. This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real time. The spacecraft carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun (the corona) using electromagnetic and particle and magnetic field detectors. Using the special vantage point L1, four payloads directly view the Sun and the remaining three payloads carry out in-situ studies of particles and fields at the Lagrange point L1, thus providing important scientific studies of the propagatory effect of solar dynamics in the interplanetary medium,” states the Aditya L1 mission profile.
The fits of Aditya L1 payloads are anticipated to offer essentially the most essential info to grasp the issue of coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare actions and their traits, dynamics of house climate, propagation of particles and fields and many others.
The seven payloads onboard the satellite tv for pc is Visible Emission Line Coronagraph(VELC), Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer(HEL1OS), Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment(ASPEX), Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA) and Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers.
The launch of Aditya-L1 comes days after the house company created historical past making India solely the fourth nation to efficiently land on the moon and first to land close to the lunar south pole.
