India Successfully Launches Solar Observation Satellite, Aditya L1: Latest News and Updates

2023-09-04 05:00:00

global | 2023.09.04 14:30

[서울=뉴스핌]Reporter Park Shik-sik = India, which successfully landed the world’s first lunar pole last month, launched a solar observation satellite this time.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that it successfully launched India’s first solar observation satellite, Aditya L1, from the Sri Harikota Space Station at around 11:50 am on the 2nd (local time).

More than 860,000 people watched the launch, which was relayed in real time on the ISRO website, and foreign media reported that thousands of people watched the unmanned space probe launch from an observation deck near the launch pad.

The Aditya-L1 launch, named following the Sanskrit word for sun, comes 10 days following India overtook Russia to land the world’s first spacecraft on the south pole of the moon.

Aditya L1 advances to the optimal point for solar observation for 125 days following launch. The goal is Lagrange L1, which is a kind of space station as a stable point where the gravity of the earth and the sun offsets, at a point 1.5 million km away from the earth, far short of the sun, which is 150 million km away from the earth.

It orbits the sun for regarding 4 months and investigates the solar wind, which is a particle of energy from the sun that causes aurora on Earth.

The space mission’s chief scientist, Sankar Subraminian, said Aditya’s mission would advance our understanding of the sun’s motion, the heliosphere and space weather. “We believe we will get data that we haven’t gotten from other missions,” he said.

Somak Racherwoodfree, who was involved in the development of components for Aditya L1, said that energy particles emitted by the sun may hit communication satellites on Earth and cause communication problems.

Indian solar observation satellite Aditya L1 launch scene[사진=로이터]

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