What is Aditya L1 ?
Aditya-L1 is a spacecraft mission to study the Sun. It has been designed and will be built in collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organisation and various Indian research institutes. It is the first Indian mission to study the sun. Aditya is a sanskrit word, which means sun.
It is called Aditya L1 because the mission will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1 point, which is about 1.5 million km from Earth. Here L1 is defined as a Lagrangian point.
Why to study sun ?
Sun is very important part of our life. The sun is Earth's closest star. It provides energy that allows life to exist on our planet, but that energy comes at a cost, the sun has a variable environment that includes solar flares, coronal mass ejections of charged particles and the solar wind.
It is important for scientists to have a better understanding of how the sun behaves on a daily basis, because radiation emanating from it can affect astronauts or satellites in space.
Aditya L1 budget
The mission cost is not yet confirmed but by the sources data the mission cost is ₹378.53 crore excluding launch.
When Aditya L1 will Launch ?
It was planned to Launch during early 2020 but Covid -19 pandemic made it delay. By some media sources it is confirmed that ISRO will launch Aditya L1 at the end of 2020, which means in december.
Author - Bicky Rajwar
Pic credit - Google Image
Aditya-L1 is a spacecraft mission to study the Sun. It has been designed and will be built in collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organisation and various Indian research institutes. It is the first Indian mission to study the sun. Aditya is a sanskrit word, which means sun.
It is called Aditya L1 because the mission will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1 point, which is about 1.5 million km from Earth. Here L1 is defined as a Lagrangian point.
Why to study sun ?
Sun is very important part of our life. The sun is Earth's closest star. It provides energy that allows life to exist on our planet, but that energy comes at a cost, the sun has a variable environment that includes solar flares, coronal mass ejections of charged particles and the solar wind.
It is important for scientists to have a better understanding of how the sun behaves on a daily basis, because radiation emanating from it can affect astronauts or satellites in space.
Aditya L1 budget
The mission cost is not yet confirmed but by the sources data the mission cost is ₹378.53 crore excluding launch.
When Aditya L1 will Launch ?
It was planned to Launch during early 2020 but Covid -19 pandemic made it delay. By some media sources it is confirmed that ISRO will launch Aditya L1 at the end of 2020, which means in december.
Author - Bicky Rajwar
Pic credit - Google Image
