ISRO’s Aditya-L1 — All that we know about India's first solar mission

Sep 17, 2021 By: Vaamanaa Sethi Credit: TOI

Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission to study the sun, will be launched next year in the third quarter,...

...confirmed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Credit: TOI

The mission was pushed from early 2020 to 2022 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair, director of human spaceflight centre, announced in a conference,...

...“The solar mission Aditya-L1 will be launched in the third quarter of next year (2022) and will provide more insights into the origin of the universe and many other unknowns.” Credit: BCCL

The solar mission, which was earlier named as ‘Aditya-1’, was planned to launch in a 800 kilometre (km) ...

...low earth orbit, but now the revised ‘Aditya - L1’ will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. Credit: TOI

The spacecraft will be parked on a point between the Earth and the Sun where the centripetal force...

...is exactly equal to gravitational pull, this will help in observing several phenomena from a distance without any hindrances. Credit: TOI

The revised mission will also now carry six additional payloads with new and enhanced scope and objectives.

According to media reports, ISRO officials also said that besides Aditya-L1,...

...India will also launch its second space observatory named XPoSat in 2022. Credit: BCCL

The aim behind the launch of XPoSat is to help astronomers study cosmic sources such as pulsars and supernovae

Nair also said in the conference,...

...“XPoSat will allow us to study the polarisation of celestial events. It will be launched by an SSLV [small satellite launch vehicle], which is under development. The first development flight will be by the end of this year.” Credit: BCCL

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