2023-10-01 10:34:36
“Aditya-L1” is an Indian probe on its way to study the solar system. The Indian Space Agency announced, on Saturday evening, that the Indian probe that was launched towards the solar system to study the sun had left the field of influence of Earth’s gravity. The Aditya-L1 mission, meaning sun in Hindi, was launched on September 2 for a four-month journey. It carries scientific instruments to monitor the outer layers of the solar system. The Indian Space Research Organization said in a statement: “The probe left the field of influence of Earth’s gravity.” The probe, which bears the same name as the Hindu sun god, has traveled a distance of 920,000 kilometers since its takeoff, more than half the way to its destination. At this point, the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun cancel each other out, allowing the probe to remain in a stable orbit. The organization added: “This is the second time in a row that the Indian Space Research Organization has sent a spacecraft outside the sphere of influence of Earth’s gravity, as Mars Orbiter was its first mission” in the years 2013-2014. Both Japan and China have launched their own solar monitoring missions, but in Earth orbit. If the Indian organization’s new mission succeeds, the probe will be the first to be placed in orbit around the sun by an Asian country. The United States and the European Space Agency have placed vehicles in orbit to study the Sun, starting with NASA’s Pioneer program in the 1960s. “This is an ambitious mission for India,” astrophysicist Somak Raychoudhuri told NDTV when the mission was launched at the beginning of September, noting that the spacecraft intends to study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon that leads to massive discharges of plasma and the resulting magnetic energy. From the sun’s atmosphere. On August 23, India became the first country to successfully land an unmanned vehicle, Chandrayaan-3, near the lunar south pole, which is largely unexplored so far, and the fourth to carry out a controlled landing on the lunar surface, joining the ranks of This tight club. Before that, only the United States, the Soviet Union, and China were the countries that were able to successfully carry out such an operation. The Pragian spacecraft, a six-wheeled solar-powered vehicle, carried out a scientific mission to the south pole of the moon, before stopping work for the duration of the lunar night, that is, regarding two weeks. The Indian Space Research Organization intends to extend the mission of its mobile robot by reactivating it once light returns to the lunar surface, but this machine has not yet responded. The head of the Indian Space Research Organisation, S. Somanath, last Wednesday: “It is okay for the machine not to respond, because the vehicle did what was expected of it.” The Indian space program was built on a relatively low budget, which was raised following the failure of a first attempt to place a probe in orbit around the moon in 2008. Experts believe that India is able to keep the costs of its space program low by copying existing technology and modifying it as necessary, thanks to the boom in skilled engineers who receive salaries. Low compared to their foreign counterparts. India is scheduled to launch a three-day manned mission into Earth’s orbit next year. It intends to undertake a joint mission with Japan to send a second probe to the moon by 2025, and a mission to the orbit of Venus within the next two years. (AFP)
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