Aditya-L1: India may be the fourth to take a trip to L1 Halo orbit
solar observatory mission, Aditya L-1, from its premier satellite launch centre Sriharikota, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh. If successful, India will become the fourth country to place a spacecraft in an orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, termed L1, after the US, Europe and China, top solar scientists said.
Earlier, USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) joint mission Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and China’s Chang’e-5 extended mission have reached L1.
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“There are a lot of gaps in understanding coronal mass ejections’ (CMEs’) physics in the inner solar corona. So, I think with the VELC instrument, we will be able to study and understand the acceleration mechanism of CMEs,” he said.
Aditya’s estimated journey time from launch date to its designated orbit is four months, according to the scientists who said the mission’s objective is not to be a space weather-alert instrument.
NASA-ESA’s Mission SOHO was designed for a
