After Chandrayaan 3, ISRO plans to launch the Aditya L1 solar mission on this day.

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ISRO’s sun mission Aditya L1 is ready to be launched and is positioned at the launch pad in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

The Indian Space Research Organisation is getting ready to launch Aditya L1, the nation’s first Sun mission, within the next 14 days following the success of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. Nilesh M. Desai, director of the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, said on Saturday that the launch would occur on September 2.

from SDSC-SHAR in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, the satellite that was launched from the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Bengaluru, has arrived and is set up for launch.

“We have an Aditya-L1 mission planned to examine the Sun. It is prepared and set up on the launch pad; a launch on September 2 is possible, Desai told the news agency ANI.

What is Aditya L1 mission?

The Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is around 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth, is where the spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit after launch, according to the ISRO. According to the ISRO, the location selection is crucial for enabling uninterrupted viewing of the star without occultation or eclipse.

Real-time monitoring of the effects of solar activity on space weather is one of the mission’s main goals. ISRO stated that it wanted to learn more about the issues associated with “coronal heating, coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics, dynamics of space weather, propagation of particles and fields, etc.” through the project.

According to the ISRO, Aditya L1 will include seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere, and outermost layers of the Sun. Magnetic field and electromagnetic particle detectors will be included in the module for the experiments.

Four of the seven payloads will observe the Sun directly from the unique vantage point L1, while the other three will conduct particle and field investigations there to determine how solar dynamics affect the interplanetary medium.

Chandrayaan-3 | A ‘Colony’ in Outer Space: Why Are Countries Racing to the Moon?

History was made on August 23 at 6:04 p.m. as millions of Indians witnessed the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Vikram Lander make a successful soft landing on the moon’s south pole.
India not only accomplished a safe surface landing, it also became the first nation to place a probe on the coveted south pole of the moon, moving ahead of the United States, China, and the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Additionally notable is the fact that Luna 25, Russia’s first lunar mission in decades, crashed onto the moon’s surface just days before India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), succeeded.

The goal of several nations and commercial enterprises is to successfully land a spaceship on the moon. After a Japanese company’s spacecraft failed during a similar landing in April of this year, Japan aims to send a lunar lander to the moon during the next few days. An Israeli organisation made an effort to launch a spacecraft to the surface of the moon in 2019, but it was destroyed upon impact.

First, What’s a Space Race?

The Cold War started in the middle of the 20th century after World War II ended. The democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union were therefore placed against one another. The two countries have been engaged in a savage rivalry over who would “conquer” outer space first since the 1950s.

The moon’s south pole has been suggested as a potential site for a human colony because of the amount of “water ice,” which, according to specialists, has further reinforced this race.

Scientist at Vigyan Prasar in New Delhi, Dr T. Venkateshwaran, told The Quint that there have been “revived attempts to explore the moon” over the last five years, but just three of these high-profile endeavours have been successful—two by China and one by India.