After days of successfully landing the nations third Moon Mission- Chandrayaan-3, now the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to achieve another milestone mission. The National Space Agency has announced that Aditya-L1, Indias first Sun mission, is scheduled to take off from Sriharikota on September 2 morning.ISRO to launch Indias 1st Sun mission – Aditya-L1 In a statement, ISRO said, “PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission: The launch of Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is scheduled for September 2, 2023, at 11:50 Hrs. IST from Sriharikota,”🚀PSLV-C57/🛰️Aditya-L1 Mission:The launch of Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun ☀️, is scheduled for 🗓️September 2, 2023, at 🕛11:50 Hrs. IST from Sriharikota. Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery at… pic.twitter.com/bjhM5mZNrx— ISRO (@isro) August 28, 2023Reportedly, the Aditya-L1 mission, which will mark Indias first mission to study the Sun, will allow Indias scientists to unlock new insights about the centre of our solar system. Also, the spacecraft is meant to be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.According to ISRO scientists, the instruments of Aditya-L1 are tuned to observe the solar atmosphere mainly, the chromosphere and the corona — two outermost layers of the star. The instruments will observe the local environment at L1 and carry out remote sensing and observation.Whats the aim of the Aditya-L1 missionThe objectives of the mission are to study the solar upper atmospheric (chromosphere and corona) dynamics, chromospheric and coronal heating, physics of the partially ionised plasma, initiation of the coronal mass ejections and flares, observe the in-situ particle and plasma environment providing data for the study of particle dynamics from the Sun, physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, diagnostics of the coronal and coronal loops plasma—temperature, velocity and density, and analyse the magnetic field topology and magnetic field measurements in the solar corona along with drivers of space weather.In July, the National Space Agency said, “The suits of Aditya-L1 payloads are expected to provide the most crucial information to understand the problem of coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, propagation of particles and fields.”With PTI inputs
