2024-01-07 15:10:02
Local media reported on the 7th (local time) that India’s solar observation satellite launched last year arrived at its target location following a four-month flight.
India’s first solar observation satellite, ‘Aditya L1’, was launched on September 2 last year. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that this satellite flew toward Lagrange 1, 1.5 million km away from Earth, and arrived on the 6th.
Lagrange point 1 is where the gravitational effects of the Sun and Earth are canceled out. Aditya L1 will remain at Lagrange 1 for the next five years and will orbit the halo around the sun to observe the solar atmosphere, including ‘coronal heating’ and solar wind. Corona heating refers to the heating of the corona, the upper atmosphere of the sun, to maintain a hot state, but the heating process is not yet known.
The Aditya L1 launch took place 10 days following India succeeded in landing the unmanned lunar probe Chandrayaan 3 on the lunar south pole for the first time in the world in August last year. India is the first Asian country to place a satellite in orbit around the sun.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi commented in a post on social media X, saying, “India has set another milestone (in terms of space exploration).” yunhap news
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