Shalaka Kachare, Pune
After sending Chandrayaan-3, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now preparing to study the Sun. The organisation has also released the first picture of the satellite in this episode.
In an update, ISRO stated that the U. The satellite, which was constructed at the Rao Satellite Center, has arrived at the Sriharikota Space Center in Andhra Pradesh. According to one ISRO official, the launch will occur in the first week of September. The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the sun that will be 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth. Lagrange points are those locations in space where a field of attraction and repulsion is created by the gravitational pull of two space bodies, such as the Sun and the Earth. It bears the name Joseph-Louis Lagrange, after the French-Italian mathematician.
ISRO said that continuous viewing of the Sun without any shadow or eclipse from a satellite placed in a ‘halo’ orbit around the L-1 point can be beneficial. The spacecraft carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere (the uppermost layer of the Sun’s visible surface), and outermost layer (corona) of the Sun using electromagnetic, particle, and magnetic field detectors. The remaining four payloads will use a unique vantage point called L-1 to gaze directly at the Sun.
ISRO said, ‘There’s hope that with the help of The Aditya L-1, we will be able to understand the heat of the corona, the large-scale energy released from the corona, the activities and characteristics of its light, the dynamics of space weather, and the diffusion of particles and regions.’