The latest mission in India’s ambitious space program has blasted off on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing.

Aditya-L1 launched shortly before midday, with a live broadcast showing hundreds of spectators cheering wildly against the deafening noise of the rocket’s ascent.

The mission is carrying scientific instruments to observe the sun’s outermost layers in a four-month journey.

The US and the European Space Agency (Esa) have sent numerous probes to the centre of the solar system, beginning with Nasa’s Pioneer program in the 1960s.

Japan and China have both launched their own solar observatory missions into Earth’s orbit.

But if successful, the latest mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be the first by any Asian nation to be placed in orbit around the sun.

“It’s a challenging mission for India,” astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury told on Friday.

Raychaudhury said the mission probe would study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon that sees huge discharges of plasma and magnetic energy from the sun’s atmosphere.

These bursts are so powerful they can reach the Earth and potentially disrupt the operations of satellites.

Aditya would help predict the phenomenon “and alert everybody so that satellites can shut down their power”, he said.

“It will also help us understand how these things happen, and in the future, we might not need a warning system out there.”

Aditya, the name of the Hindu Sun deity, will travel 1.5m km (930,000 miles) to reach its destination – still only 1% of the vast distance between Earth and the sun.

At that point, the gravitational forces of both celestial bodies cancel each other out, allowing the mission to remain in a stable halo orbit around our nearest star.

Aditya is travelling on the ISRO-designed, 320-tonne PSLV XL rocket that has been a mainstay of the Indian space program, powering earlier launches to the moon and Mars.

The mission also aims to shed light on the dynamics of several other solar phenomena by imaging and measuring particles in the sun’s upper atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/india-launches-space-mission-to-the-sun-a-week-after-moon-landing


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ADITYA-L1 Scientific Payloads


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ADITYA-L1 Operation of Alpha Particle X-ray Spectroscope


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Dope

Country that think ahead of time, not one shithole in Africa

NIGERIA,

See people wey suppose be your mates! You leave to be better country come dey measure shoulders with people like Niger republic and Ghana! Same Ghana that once was such a backward country that their citizens literally considered YOU to be "overseas", which birthed the infamous "Ghana Must Go" anthem when you humiliated them enough to be their origin story of development. Today that same Ghana is chasing your citizens from their country.

You are a failure! You are a failure for being a land that permits injustice to thrive! You are a failure for being a country that only works for the crooked politicians and elites!

See your mate flying to the Solar system there! Stay down here and be sharing microphone with Niger republic over stupid and unnecessary issues!

Mtscheew!

Leave the sun alone. We don't know how the butterfly effect will end.

The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon. Of course, a single act like the butterfly flapping its wings cannot cause a typhoon.
https://fs.blog/the-butterfly-effect/

Nemesis4you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJZe2eKWbI

India is going to the Sun to decrease their 1 billion + population.

One of their aim is to study the ionization and their impacts to design Higher then SIL-3 electronics and sensor.
Once developed same technology will be sold to commercial manufacturer for mass production of communication equipment, Just this will earn them millions of USD and will generate thousands of direct jobs.

Ofcourse all this is very hard for you to understand. But as a Professional in Tech sector(CEI) i commend their technical prowess and capabilities.

panafrican:

India is going to the Sun to decrease their 1 billion + population.

rationalhuman:
One of their aim is to study the ionization and their impacts to design Higher then SIL-3 electronics and sensor.
Once developed same technology will be sold to commercial manufacturer for mass production of communication equipment, Just this will earn them millions of USD and will generate thousands of direct jobs.

Ofcourse all this is very hard for you to understand. But as a Professional in Tech sector(CEI) i commend their technical prowess and capabilities.

Your eyes are only on the positive side ( gain, profit and effectiveness of your plan ). I don't want to take a chance with such a one-sided scientist.
This is how you create things you can't control.
Widen your paradigm and take into account the pitfalls.