Aditya L1 Launch Successful Live Updates: PM Modi congratulates ISRO; Know when will Aditya L1 reach Sun's orbit
ISRO’s spacecraft succesfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Saturday. With this, India inched one step closer for the completion of its maiden Solar expedition. ISRO’s trusted PSLV will carry the Aditya L1 mission on a 125-day voyage to the Sun.
The Aditya L1 spacecraft will stay in Earth’s orbit for sixteen days. After four months of journey, the satellite will be placed on the L1 point in the halo orbit around the Sun.
The launch took place at 11:50 am from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota today. The 23.10 hour countdown for the launch of Aditya L1 onboard PSLV C57 commenced on Friday, ISRO said.
Aditya L1 is designed to provide remote observations of the Solar corona and conduct in-situ observations of the Solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.
02 Sep 2023, 03:00:42 PM IST
Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra on Saturday took to microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) to say that while ‘Don’t fly too close to the Sun’ was used to define ‘over ambition’ of Greek god Icarus, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) can successfully change the meaning with the launch of Aditya L1.
02 Sep 2023, 02:31:56 PM IST
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Aditya L1 is expected to reach on its decided orbit near the Sun after four months in January next year.
02 Sep 2023, 02:15:18 PM IST
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched the Solar mission on Saturday. After the launch, the spacecraft will be placed in a Low Earth Orbit. Later, teh orbit will be made more elliptical, later it will be launched to L1 point.
02 Sep 2023, 01:57:50 PM IST
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: After the successful launch of ISRO’s mission to the Sun, ISRO Chief S Somnath congratulated the PSLV while wishing the best to the Aditya L-1 spacecraft.
“I congratulate PSLV for such a very different mission approach to do the Aditya-L1 Mission, to put it in the right orbit. From now, the Mission will start its journey to the L1 point. It’s a very long journey of almost 125 days. Let us wish all the best to Aditya Spacecraft”.
02 Sep 2023, 01:43:18 PM IST
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: ISRO successfully launched Aditya L1 Mission from Sriharikota launchpat in Andhra Pradesh by the PSLV-C57 rocket. Here are few visuals of the exciting moment.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Six payloadds that are being carried with Aditya L1 spacecraft will remain inactive till January 2023, till the time, they are not inserted into a ‘halo’ orbit near L1.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Karnataka’s Deputy CM DK Shivakumar extended his best wishes to the entire team of ISRO ahead of the the launch of Aditya L1.
Aditya L1 Mission Live Updates: Space expert Somak Raychaudhury said that India’s mission to the Sun has the capacity to make a “big bang in terms of science,” reported Reuters.
Somak Raychaudhury, who was involved in the development of some components of the observatory.
“There have been episodes when major communications have gone down because a satellite has been hit by a big corona emission. Satellites in low earth orbit are the main focus of global private players, which makes the Aditya L1 mission a very important project,” he said.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: The Solar spacecraft will travel about 1.5 million km over four months to enter the decided orbit around sun, ie L1. At L1 is a kind of parking lot in space where objects tend to stay put because of balancing gravitational forces, reducing fuel consumption for the spacecraft.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: Former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said that the satellite will be placed around Lagrangian Point 1. He said that the data from the space mission will explain different phenomena.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: As India gears up for the final countdown of its mission to the Sun, astronaut Chris Hadfield said, “So when we put something like Aditya L-1 up there in between us and the Sun to sense those things, to better understand how the sun works and the threats that it has to the earth, it’s good for everybody for protecting us as people.”
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: As we are nearly an hour away from the launch of India’s mission to the Sun, students performed ‘Surya Namaskar’ at the Doon Yoga Peeth for its success on Saturday.
The Surya Namaskar was performed in the presence of spiritual guru Acharya Bipin Joshi.
Aditya L 1 Launching LIVE: India’s solar spacecraft consists of seven payloads. All of them are indigenously developed by different laboratories in India.
Its VELC instrument is made at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore; SUIT instrument at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics , Pune; ASPEX instrument at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; PAPA payload at Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; SoLEXS and HEL1OS payloads at U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bangalore, and the Magnetometer payload at the Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems, Bangalore. All the payloads are developed with the close collaboration of various centres of ISRO.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: India’s solar mission will also observe geomagnetic storms and other phenomena on the Sun. Notably, these phenomena led to the inactivity of at least 40 of the 49 satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Ahead of the launch of India’s mission to space, Congress leader Surendra Rajput congratulated all the scientists of ISRO.
02 Sep 2023, 09:44:39 AM IST
Aditya L1 Live Updates: Astronomer Professor RC Kapoor on Saturday called the final day of the launch of India’s solar mission as the day of utmost importance. “The most important instrument on Aditya L1 will study the Corona of the Sun. Normally, which can only be studied during full solar eclipse,” he added.
