After the Moon, India launched a solar research spacecraft

According to RT, the first solar observation spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was launched by a PSLV rocket, with the mission of observing sunlight and measuring plasma and magnetic field parameters.

Prior to the launch, ISRO Director Somanath stated that the Aditya L1 satellite would take 125 days to reach its designated Lagrangian (L1) point, named after the Italian astronomer Joseph Louis Lagrange.

ISRO's Aditya-L1 spacecraft was launched from Sriharikota on September 2nd, on its solar exploration mission. (Photo: AFP)

After launch, Aditya-L1 will orbit Earth for 16 days, then it will activate five times to gain the velocity needed for its solar exploration journey. The probe will be placed in a fixed orbit within the Solar System-Earth system and will continue to orbit the Sun to collect data. According to ISRO, Aditya-L1 is still about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

The Aditya L1 spacecraft is expected to provide crucial information for understanding solar phenomena such as the warming of the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, solar halos, as well as magnetic and plasma emissions from solar halos, and the activity of radiation.

Data collected from the solar probe will help India train astronauts for the Gaganyaan mission – the country's first manned space program. Testing is scheduled to begin in October.

(Source: News Report/RT)

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