As we all know ISRO's Chandrayaan 3 mission has landed successfully on Moon. Now it is time to launch the Aditya L1 mission which is the mission to study Sun. ISRO announced the launch of the Aditya L1 mission on the 2nd of September 2023 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.
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As we all know ISRO always completes its mission on a low budget the expected budget for this mission is around Rs 400 crore.
Objectives of the ISRO's Aditya L1 Mission
Objectives of Aditya L1 Mission are:-
- Study the solar corona and chromosphere in detail.
- Understand the physics of solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
- Investigate the propagation of solar particles and fields in the interplanetary medium.
- Improve our understanding of space weather and its effects on Earth.
Aditya L1 will be placed in halo orbit around the first Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. This point is gravitationally stable for Aditya L1 located about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth from this point Aditya L1 will complete its mission to study about Sun.
Aditya L1 will carry seven scientific instruments to study the Sun. These instruments will measure the Sun's magnetic field, solar wind, and energetic particles. They will also study the Sun's atmosphere in detail, including the chromosphere and corona.
Payloads of Aditya L1
| Sno | Payloads | Capability |
| 1 | Visible Emission Line Coronagraph(VELC) | Corona/Imaging & Spectroscopy |
| 2 | Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) | Photosphere and Chromosphere Imaging- Narrow & Broadband |
| 3 | Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) | Soft X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation |
| 4 | High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer(HEL1OS) | Hard X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation |
| 5 | Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment(ASPEX) | Solar wind/Particle Analyzer Protons and heavier Ions with directions |
| 6 | Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA) | Solar wind/Particle Analyzer Electrons and heavier Ions with directions |
| 7 | Advanced Tri-axial High-Resolution Digital Magnetometers | In-situ magnetic field (Bx, By and Bz). |
Images of Aditya-L1 Mission
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