Lagatar24 Desk
Sriharikota, Sept 2: ISRO’s Solar Mission PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 was successfully launched today at 11.50 am from Sriharikota Space Station in Andhra Pradesh. After the historic landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the south pole of the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) once again took steps towards creating history. The eyes of the country as well as the world are focused on this mission.
This launching has been done with PSLV-XL rocket. This was the 25th flight of this rocket. Rocket PSLV-XL has left to drop Aditya in its fixed orbit. Aditya-Elvan will reach its designated orbit about an hour after launch.
According to ISRO, Aditya-L1 will reach its point L1 exactly 127 days after launching. After reaching this point, Aditya-L1 will start sending very important data. The weather today was perfect for the launch in Sriharikota. The wind was blowing at a speed of 13 kilometres per hour. The temperature remained between 33-34 degrees Celsius. There were light clouds in the sky.
Aditya L1 is designed for remote observation of the Sun’s circumstellar space and real-time observation of the solar wind at L1 (the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point) about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Aditya L1 will be the first spacecraft to study the Sun.
Aditya L1 is expected to travel a distance of about 15 lakh kilometres in 125 days and be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point L1, which is considered closest to the Sun.
This is the 59th flight of PSLV. It is the 25th flight of XL variant. It was launched from Launch Pad 2 of Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. This rocket is 145.62 feet high. According to ISRO, this rocket will leave Aditya-L1 in the lower orbit of the Earth. Whose perigee (closest distance to the earth) will be 235 km and apogee (maximum distance) will be 19,500 km.
Regarding the Aditya L1 mission, Padmashree awardee and former ISRO scientist Mylswamy Annadurai said that reaching the L1 point and continuously rotating in an orbit around it is technically challenging. In this sequence, it is also challenging to survive continuously for five years at a very precise point. Annadurai said, it is going to be very beneficial scientifically because its seven instruments will try to understand those incidents and what is happening there.
Aditya-L1 is India’s first solar mission. It has been made by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It has seven payloads. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft will be placed in the L1 orbit between the Earth and the Sun. This will be the first Lagrangian point between the Sun and the Earth system. That’s why L1 is added to his name. L1 is actually the parking space of space where many satellites are deployed. Aditya-L1 will study the Sun from this point located 15 lakh km away from the Earth.
