ISRO’s Groundbreaking Aditya-L1 Mission: Asia’s First Solar Orbit Achievement

2023-10-02 16:14:06
If successful, the latest ISRO mission will be the first of its kind for any Asian country placed in orbit around the sun. The Indian space agency said that the Indian sun-observing spacecraft has crossed a historic point in its journey to escape the “Earth’s sphere of influence”, days after a disappointment. The hope of the failure of its lunar probe to wake up. The Aditya-L1 mission, which began a 4-month journey towards the center of the solar system on September 2, carries tools to observe the outer layers of the sun. Aditya – named after the sun god in Hindu belief – traveled 920,000 kilometres, just over half the total distance of the trip. At that point, the gravitational forces of both astronomical objects cancel out, allowing the mission to remain in a stable halo orbit around our nearest star. Outside the scope of Earth’s gravity, the Indian Space Agency added in a press release – issued on August 30 – that “this is the second time in a row that ISRO has been able to send a spacecraft outside the scope of Earth’s influence, and the first time was the Mars orbital mission.” . Aditya traveled a distance of 920,000 km, just over half the total distance of the (French) flight, and last August, India became the first country to land a vehicle near the largely unexplored south pole of the moon, and the fourth country to land on the surface of the moon. The Pragyan rover surveyed the area near its landing site, but was turned off before the start of the lunar night, which lasts for about two weeks on Earth. India had hoped to prolong the mission by reactivating the solar-powered vehicle once daylight returned to the lunar surface. In 2014, India became the first Asian country to put a rover into orbit around Mars, and is scheduled to launch a 3-day manned mission into Earth’s orbit by next year. Space powers at the center of the solar system The United States and the European Space Agency have sent many probes to the center of the solar system, starting with NASA’s Pioneer program in the 1960s. Japan and China also launched their own solar observatory missions into Earth orbit. But if successful, ISRO’s latest mission will be the first of its kind for any Asian country placed in orbit around the sun.
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