India’s Aditya-L1 mission has captured a Coronal Mass Ejection in visible light for the first time. The observation, in collaboration with NASA, provides new insights into solar eruptions and space-weather forecasting.
The findings published in 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' provide key insights into the Sun’s corona and its influence on space weather
India's Aditya L1 mission and ESA's Proba-3 mission join forces for groundbreaking solar observations, marking a significant collaboration in space research.
Solar eclipses will ultimately stop happening. In the meantime, they are of endless interest to scientists, historian, cultural and religious leaders, and people from all walks. Stands to reason that so many people are expected to travel to the US, Canada and Mexico to see the total solar eclipse of 8 April that will last more than 7 minutes.
The mission to study the sun is among a slate of projects ISRO has lined up through the year, key among them its first human space mission and a low-Earth orbit observatory system jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, called NISAR.
The insertion of Aditya-L1 in the Halo orbit represents a vital mission milestone that required precision navigation and control.
India’s first solar observatory Aditya-L1 reaches it destination.
The satellite, which will reach its destination orbit on January 6 at 4 pm, will get into the “halo orbit” around Lagrange Point 1 (L1), one of the five spots in the moving Sun-Earth system.
The mission, the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit L1, was launched by ISRO on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota.
SUIT captured images of the Sun's photosphere and chromosphere in this wavelength range using various scientific filters, according to ISRO.
"Aditya is on the way. I think it has reached almost its final phase," the ISRO chief told "Aditya is on the way.
Since its commissioning on October 27, 2023, HEL1OS has been consistently observing hard X-ray images from the Sun.
ISRO announced on Sunday that it conducted a trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) for the Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first solar mission.
It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
The first and second earth-bound manoeuvres were successfully performed on September 3 and 5, respectively. The spacecraft will undergo one more earth-bound orbital manoeuvre before it is placed in the transfer orbit towards the Lagrange point L1.
ISRO launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which will study the Sun, from Sriharikota on September 2 in one of its longest flights into a highly eccentric orbit around Earth. On September 5, it successfully underwent a second Earth-bound manoeuvre.
India launched its first solar mission, Aditya L-1, on September 2 to study how solar flares and the Sun’s magnetic field affect the Earth. ISRO’s first sun probe follows similar missions by NASA and the European Space Agency, which have placed orbiters like Parker Solar Probe & Proba-2. Watch to find out what other countries have been upto
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According to ISRO, Aditya-L1 will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth, directed towards the Sun, which is about one per cent of the earth-sun distance. It will neither land on the Sun nor approach the Sun any closer.
Aditya-L1 has been successfully put into its immediate orbit and will take up to four months to reach L1, where the seven payloads its carrying will study solar flares and sun's magnetic field among others
At the heart of the solar mission was Nigar Shaji- the project director of Aditya-L1 mission, who along with her team ensured that the launch was executed successfully.
According to Indian space agency ISRO, Aditya-L1 is the first space-based observatory to study the Sun.
The launch took place at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at around 11:50 am in the morning.
As the 23.40-hour countdown concluded, the 44.4-metre-high Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) soared majestically at the prefixed time of 11.50 am from the Sriharikota spaceport, located on the eastern coast about 135 kilometres from Chennai.
"The good news is that the rover has moved almost 100 metres from the lander and we are going to start the process of making both of them sleep in the coming one or two days because they have to withstand the night," noted the ISRO chief.