ISRO Achieves Milestone with Aditya-L1 Solar Mission
The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) recently marked a significant milestone by successfully placing the Aditya-L1 spacecraft into a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. Launched via the PSLV-C57 rocket on September 2, 2023, the mission culminated in the spacecraft reaching its destination approximately 127 days later, on January 6, 2024. Aditya-L1, India’s pioneering solar mission, distinguishes itself as the first space-based observatory-class mission dedicated to studying the Sun from a distance of about 1.5 million kilometers. This mission comes as the second astronomy observatory-class endeavor by ISRO, following the successful AstroSat mission in 2015. The spacecraft's primary objective revolves around gaining deeper insights into the Sun's behavior and its various elements, including the solar corona, photosphere, chromosphere, solar wind, radiation, heat, particle flow, and magnetic fields. Positioned strategically at the L1 poi...