An Indian probe is on its way to study the solar system
The Indian Space Agency announced on Saturday evening that Indian probe The one launched towards the solar system to study the Sun left the field of influence of Earth’s gravity.
It was launched Aditya-L1 mission Which means “sun” in Hindi, on September 2 on a four-month journey. It carries scientific instruments to monitor the outer layers of the solar system.
The Indian Space Research Organization said in a statement, “The probe left the field of influence of Earth’s gravity.”
The probe has traveled a distance of 920,000 kilometers since its takeoff, which is more than half the way to its destination.
At this point, the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun cancel each other out, allowing the probe to remain in a stable orbit.
Aditya-L1 Mission:
🔸The spacecraft has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence. It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
🔸This is the second time in succession that…
— ISRO (@isro) September 30, 2023
The organization added, “This is the second time in a row that the Indian Space Research Organization has sent a spacecraft outside the sphere of influence of Earth’s gravity, and the first was the Mars Orbiter mission” in 2013-2014.
Both Japan and China have launched their own solar monitoring missions, but in Earth orbit.
If the organization’s new mission succeeds, the probe will be the first to be placed in orbit around the sun by an Asian country.
The United States and the European Space Agency have put vehicles in orbit to study the Sun, starting with NASA’s Pioneer program in the 1960s.
Astrophysicist Somak Raychoudhuri told NDTV when the mission was launched at the beginning of September that this is an ambitious mission for his country, noting that the vehicle intends to study coronal mass emission, a periodic phenomenon that leads to massive discharges of plasma and magnetic energy. Coming from the sun’s atmosphere.
After the Successful moon mission Chandrayaan-3 and sun mission Aditya-L1, India is now aiming towards the brightest Planet that is Venus. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somanath on Tuesday said that the mission to the brightest planet in the solar… pic.twitter.com/T9TtjqFTTj
— The Tatva (@thetatvaindia) September 27, 2023
India’s space program is promising
On August 23, India became the first country to successfully land an unmanned vehicle, Chandrayaan-3, near the moon’s largely unexplored south pole, and the fourth to carry out a controlled landing on the moon’s surface, joining this narrow club.
Before that, only the United States, the Soviet Union, and China were the countries that were able to successfully carry out such an operation.
The Pragyan spacecraft, a six-wheeled solar-powered vehicle, carried out a scientific mission to the south pole of the moon before stopping operation for the duration of the lunar night, that is, about two weeks.
The Indian Space Research Organization intends to extend the mission of its mobile robot by reactivating it once light returns to the lunar surface, but this machine has not yet responded.
The organization’s president, S. Somanath Wednesday, “It is okay for the machine not to respond, because the vehicle did what was expected of it.”
The Indian space program was built on a relatively low budget, which was increased after the failure of a first attempt to put a probe into orbit around the moon in 2008.
Experts believe that India is able to keep the costs of its space program low by copying existing technology and modifying it as necessary, thanks to the boom in skilled engineers who receive low salaries compared to their foreign counterparts.
New Delhi is scheduled to launch a three-day manned mission into Earth’s orbit next year. It intends to undertake a joint mission with Japan to send a second probe to the moon by 2025, and a mission to the orbit of Venus within the next two years.
