India's maiden solar mission Aditya L1 is scheduled to lift off on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. As per media reports, the launch will be live-streamed on ISRO's YouTube channel
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is just days away from launching India's maiden solar mission, the Aditya-L1 mission. This happening in a short time span of just over a week since the successful soft landing of the Chandrayaan-3's lunar module on Moon.The Aditya L1 mission is scheduled to lift off on September 2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will blast off on its record 57th mission to space with the Aditya L1 spacecraft at 11:50 am from the launch pad.
As per media reports, the launch will be live-streamed on ISRO's YouTube channel, allowing space enthusiasts across the globe to witness this historic event.
It has been reported that the national space organizarion has also invited citizens to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery at Sriharikota. Registration for this was enabled from August 29.
India's maiden attempt to study the celestial center point of our solar system, the Sun from a closer range, the Aditya-L1 mission will be launched by ISRO PSLV rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR),Sriharikota.
According to the ISRO official, the spacecraft will embark on a 127-day-long journey to reach its destination, which will cover a distance of nearly 15 lakh kilometres from Earth.
The mission is designed with absolute precision with an aim to station the Aditya-L1 in a highly elliptical orbit in a bid to enable close observations of the Sun which will include monitoring solar activity, and advanced understanding of the star that sustains life on Earth.
It has been reported that the spacecraft will be equipped with a Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) which will be used for imaging and spectroscopy of the Sun to better understand the science powering the star.
Moreover, the spacecraft will also hav ethe advantages of deploying six other instruments to explore the science of the Sun.
Amongst the seven payloads, four will directly view the Sun from the unique vantage point of L1, known to have an uninterrupted view of the Sun, the remaining three payloads will carry out in-situ studies of particles and fields at the Lagrange point L1.
The L1 point is currently housing the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite SOHO from the United State's space organization NASA.