India will launch the Aditya mission to the Sun on September 2
India will launch the Aditya mission to the Sun on September 2
The Indian space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has said that its first observatory to study the Sun will be launched on Saturday, September 2, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. will
The Aditya-L-One spacecraft will study the Sun from a distance of 1.5 million kilometers, which will be launched into low Earth orbit by a country-made PSLVXL rocket. The spacecraft will then burn its rocket propulsion system and reach the El One orbit. The entire journey will take four months.
The main objective of the mission is to study the heat of the Sun’s corona, its physics and ionized plasma. This mission will show how the fiery flames from the Sun rise up to millions of kilometers away. They are also called solar flares.
In other research, he will also consider the solar particle activity and their temperature, including the solar magnetic field.