Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India’s space agency launched another satellite and this one will study the Sun. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, is bound for the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point, located 1.5 million km from Earth. This will give it a perfect perspective to watch the Sun, similar to NASA’s SOHO mission. It … Continue reading 'India Follows its Lunar Mission by Sending a Spacecraft to Study the Sun'
The orbital path of the Aditya-L1 MissionThe spacecraft successfully performed a maneuver on September 5 to help it reach the correct orbit, making gradually larger orbits around Earth. The next maneuver is scheduled for September 10. Once the spacecraft reaches Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, it will be placed in a halo orbit around the point where the gravitational pull of both the Sun and Earth cancel each other out.
There are four instruments on board that will study the Sun, while three others will study solar wind particles and magnetic fields passing through at Lagrange point 1.
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