Aditya L1 Mission – Objectives, Importance, Challenges
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Indian Space research organization continues to add feathers to its crown with its ambitious project reaching the Sun. After its first space-based launch AstroSat (2015), India is on course to launch Aditya L1, its first mission to the Sun in 2020. Aditya L1 will be India’s first dedicated scientific mission to study the sun.
When it was conceived?
- It was first called Aditya 1 was conceptualised by the Advisory Committee for Space Research in January 2008.
- It was first planned as a 400kg satellite-carrying only one payload- the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) to be launched in 800km low earth orbit.
- The only objective was to observe the corona (The outer layers of the Sun, extending to thousands of km above the disc (photosphere).
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