India Saturday, a week after the space agency’s successful unmanned landing on the moon the sun is trying to achieve a major breakthrough by sending a spacecraft to study
According to the French news agency AFP, the spacecraft named Aditya L-One has carried scientific instruments to observe the outer layers of the Sun.
The United States and the European Space Agency (ESA) have launched several missions to explore the center of the solar system. This work began in the 1960s with the first program of the American space research agency NASA.
This Space Mission If successful, the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) latest mission will be the first by any Asian country to be sent into solar orbit.
Speaking to NDTV, Astronomer Somak Roy Choudhary said, ‘This is a challenging mission for India.’
Rai Chaudhry said that the research mission will study coronal mass ejections. This is a periodic process in which large amounts of plasma and magnetic energy are ejected from the Sun’s atmosphere.
These storms are powerful enough to reach Earth and potentially disrupt satellites.
He said Aditya would help predict the process and ‘warn everyone so that the satellites could shut down their power systems.’
‘It will also help us understand how these natural phenomena occur and in the future we won’t need warning systems.’
Named after the sun god in Hinduism, the spacecraft Aditya will travel 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) to reach its destination.
Aditya is traveling with the help of a 320-tonne PSLVXL rocket designed by ISRO. This rocket has been a core part of the Indian space program which has previously sent missions to the Moon and Mars.
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The Indian mission also aims to shed light on the dynamics of several other solar phenomena by imaging and measuring particles in the Sun’s upper atmosphere.
India is achieving similar space milestones as the space powers, but its spending on these achievements is much lower.
The South Asian country’s space program is relatively low-budget but has grown in size and speed since sending its first spacecraft to orbit the moon in 2008.
Experts say that India can keep costs down by copying existing technology and adapting it to its own needs, and this is because of the large number of highly skilled engineers who earn much less than foreign engineers.
Last month’s successful lunar landing cost less than $750 million. Only Russia, USA and China have achieved this feat before.
When the spacecraft landed on the moon, there was a massive public celebration and prayers were offered for the success of the mission.
After the final landing, which was shown live in classrooms, school children also prayed for the success of the mission.
India is set to launch a three-day crewed mission into Earth orbit by next year.
It also plans to send another exploratory mission to the moon by 2025 with Japan and to send a mission to orbit Venus in the next two years.
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