Following the success of its historic recent moon landing, India's space agency is launching its first solar probe this weekend.
Following the success of its historic recent moon landing, India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation , is launching its first solar probe this weekend. The Aditya-L1 mission is scheduled to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India at 2:20 a.m. ET on Saturday, September 2 .
Recommended Videos When at L1, Aditya-L1 will investigate how and why an upper portion of the atmosphere, called the corona, gets so hot. The corona is much hotter than the surface of the sun, and it’s not entirely clear why this is. Aditya-L1 will also study the sun’s magnetic fields and look at what aspects of the sun’s behavior drive the space weather that can affect communications systems here on Earth.
This will be India’s first mission to study the sun, and it will have to travel around 1 million miles from the Earth to reach its L1 destination. The spacecraft will not travel there directly, however, but will rather use a transfer maneuver to adjust its course around the Earth before heading out to L1. More details on the maneuver are available on the website of the European Space Agency, which is supporting the mission with communications services and flight dynamics software.
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