New Delhi: The Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh will launch ISRO’s Aditya-L1 on September 2 at 11.50 a.m., the nation’s first observatory to study the Sun from orbit. ISRO announced in a tweet that the PSLV-C57 would be used to launch the Aditya L1 Mission.
The satellite will be positioned in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system’s Lagrange point L1, which is around 1.5 million kilometres from the planet. The Lagrange point can be reached in around four months. The benefit of the halo orbit is that the satellite may view solar activity without interference from other celestial events, such as an eclipse.
The purpose of the Aditya L1 mission is to investigate the solar wind and solar environment. Seven payloads will be carried by it to observe the photosphere, chromosphere, and the Sun’s outermost layers, the corona. This will make it easier to comprehend issues with coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activity, weather dynamics, and the study of particle and field propagation in the interplanetary medium. By registering on ISRO’s website, the public is welcome to watch the launch of PSLC-C57 from the Sriharikota viewing gallery.