Aditya L1 onboard the PSLV-C57 the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 1, 2023 on the eve of its launch. Photo: X/@ISRO by way of PTI
The European Space Agency (ESA) which had supplied essential support to ISRO to monitor the Chandrayaan-3’s well being, can even be supporting Aditya-L1, offering deep area communication providers to the mission.
“ESA’s global network of deep space tracking stations and use of internationally recognised technical standards allows us to help our partners track, command and receive data from their spacecraft almost anywhere in the solar system,” mentioned Ramesh Chellathurai, ESA service supervisor, and an ESA cross-support liaison officer for ISRO.
Mr. Chellathurai added that for the Aditya-L1 mission, ESA is offering support from all three of its 35-metre deep area antennas over Australia, Spain and Argentina, in addition to support from the Kourou station in French Guiana and coordinated support from the Goonhilly Earth Station within the UK.
Ground providers
ESA mentioned that it was the primary supplier of floor station providers for Aditya-L1. ESA stations will support the mission from starting to finish: from the important ‘Launch and Early Orbit Phase’, all through the journey to L1, after which to ship instructions to and obtain science information from Aditya-L1 for a number of hours per day over the following two years of routine operations.
The area company added that from April to December 2022, ESA and ISRO groups had labored collectively intensively to consider ISRO’s technique for working the Aditya-L1 and problem their new orbit willpower software program.
“With its experience flying and even rescuing missions at the Lagrange points, ESA was in the perfect position to help ISRO improve their new orbit determination software and demonstrate that it has the fidelity and accuracy that the organisation needs in order to operate a spacecraft at a Lagrange point for the first time,” mentioned ESA flight dynamics skilled Frank Budnik.
