After the successful mission to the moon, India takes on the next celestial body: the Indian space agency has sent a mission to the sun to investigate it more closely. The mission, dubbed Aditya-L1, launched shortly before noon (local time) on Saturday from the Satish Dhawan Cosmodrome on the coast of Andhra Pradesh state. “Start normally,” it said.
The probe is expected to travel about four months (125 days) before it is expected to reach orbit around the sun, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The Aditya-L1 mission is named after the Sanskrit word for the sun god Aditya.
Uninterrupted view of the sun
If successful, she should have an uninterrupted view of the sun, so no darkness. At 1,475 kilograms, Aditya-L1 is lighter than India’s recently launched moon mission Chandrayaan-3. A rocket will first take it into orbit and then move it towards the sun.
The mission will last five years
The outer layers of the sun must be analyzed with the payload of the satellite. Specifically, solar activities such as wind acceleration and flicker should be investigated. The mission is expected to last just over five years. The data on solar phenomena that India wants to collect should help to better understand the weather on Earth and other planets. In addition, they should help to better protect communications and climate satellites around the world, said the ISRO spokesperson.
So far, the US, China, Europe and Japan, among others, have studied the sun – alone or in joint missions.
Source: Krone
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