Aditya-L1
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Aditya-L1 (Sanskrit: 'Sun', L1 'Lagrange Point 1') is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by ISRO and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) between the Earth and the Sun, where it will study the solar atmosphere, solar magnetic storms, and their impact on the environment around the Earth.
Key facts
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- Aditya-L1 spacecraft
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- 280px
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- Solar observation
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- ISRO
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- 5.2 years (planned) (elapsed)
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- PSLV-XL/C-57
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- PSLV
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- I-1K
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- ISROIUCAAIIA
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- , 11:50 IST (06:20 UTC)
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- PSLV-XL C57
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- Satish Dhawan Space Centre
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- ISRO
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- Sun–Earth L1 orbit
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- Halo orbit
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- 6 January 2024
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- 177.86 days
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Mission objectives
- Overview
- Payloads
- Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)
- Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT)
- Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS)
- High Energy L-1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS)
- Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX)
- Plasma Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA)
- Digital Magnetometers
- Mission profile
- Launch
- Orbit raising burns
- Orbit
- Science phase
- Gallery
- Team
- See also
- References
- External links
Aditya-L1 (Sanskrit: 'Sun', L1 'Lagrange Point 1') is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by ISRO and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) between the Earth and the Sun, where it will study the solar atmosphere, solar magnetic storms, and their impact on the environment around the Earth.
It is the first Indian mission dedicated to observe the Sun. Nigar Shaji is the project's director. Aditya-L1 was launched aboard the PSLV C57 at 11:50 IST on 2 September 2023. It successfully achieved its intended orbit nearly an hour later, and separated from its fourth stage at 12:57 IST. It was inserted at the L1 point on 6 January 2024, at 4:17 pm IST.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aditya-L1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.