BENGALURU:
Ahead of the launch of India’s solar mission, Aditya-L1, the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday announced that the launch rehearsal has been completed along with the vehicle internal checks.
Taking to ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter), ISRO wrote, “PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission: The preparations for the launch are progressing. The Launch Rehearsal – Vehicle Internal Checks are completed”.
The Aditya-L1 mission is India’s first solar mission to be launched with an aim to study the sun.
PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission:
— ISRO (@isro) August 30, 2023
The preparations for the launch are progressing.
The Launch Rehearsal – Vehicle Internal Checks are completed.
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According to an ISRO statement, the Aditya L1 spacecraft carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun (the corona) using electromagnetic and particle and magnetic field detectors. Using the special vantage point L1, four payloads directly view the Sun and the remaining three payloads carry out in-situ studies of particles and fields at the Lagrange point L1, thus providing important scientific studies of the propagatory effect of solar dynamics in the interplanetary medium.
The suits of Aditya L1 payloads are expected to provide most crucial informations to understand the problem of coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, propagation of particle and fields, the statement said.
