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On August 28, the space agency announced the launch of Aditya-L1 mission, which as the name suggests, is aimed to study the prospects of the sun...
Launched by the PSLV-C57, Aditya-L1 mission is India's solar mission where the spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system..
Major objectives include the study of the physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, the solar wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and flares and near-earth space weather...
At large, the mission's objective would be to understand and find answers to unresolved questions in solarphysics and heliophysics like understanding why the upper atmosphere of the Sun is 1,000,000 K (1,000,000 C; 1,800,000 F) hot whereas the lower atmosphere is just 6,000 K (5,730 C; 10,340 F)...
The Aditya-L1 mission, which is India's maiden space mission to the sun will lift-off on September 2, at 11.50 am from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.. Further, on August 30, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said that all internal checks and launch rehearsal has been completed for the said mission...
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