2023-09-02 10:31:16
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched a rocket to study the Sun as part of its first solar mission, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has successfully launched India’s Aditya-L1 space observatory into Earth orbit. This was announced during the broadcast of the mission by the head of ISRO Shri Somanath.
“Launch of Aditya-L1 with PSLV-C57 completed successfully. The device brought the satellite exactly into the intended orbit. India’s first solar observatory has begun its journey to the L1 point of the Sun-Earth, ”the organization on platform X (formerly Twitter) also says in a message.
Po data Reuters, more than 860,000 viewers watched the rocket launch broadcast. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft began the mission a week after India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar station landed on the moon’s south pole. With a solar mission, scientists hope to learn more about the effects of solar radiation on thousands of satellites in orbit. Low Earth orbit is heavily polluted, ISRA said, and understanding how to protect satellites will be of particular importance. In addition, in the long term, mission data could help better understand the influence of the Sun on Earth’s climate conditions and the origin of the solar wind, the agency reports.
On August 23, the lander of the Indian lunar station Chandrayaan-3 successfully made a soft landing at the south pole of the moon. Thus, India became the fourth country in the world to achieve a soft landing on the Earth’s satellite – after the USSR, the USA and China, and the first to land the module at the South Pole. At the end of the month, India received the first data on the temperature from the surface of the moon – it is 70 degrees Celsius.
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