Can ISRO's Aditya L1 mission face any danger after NASA's Parker Solar Probe faces most powerful CMEs? Details here
Aditya L1 Mission: The Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India's first solar mission, lifted off successfully on 2 September, carrying seven different payloads designed for a detailed study of the Sun. As per the latest update from ISRO, Aditya-L1 performed the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre successfully and the spacecraft was now in a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point.
Moreover, the space agency also informed that Aditya L1 has also commenced collecting scientific data. Amidst this, NASA recently revealed that it's Parker Solar Probe faced one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and also added that it gracefully through managed to ‘survive’ it.
NASA in it's blogpost states that CMEs are immense eruptions from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona which help drive space weather, which can endanger satellites, disrupt communications and navigation technologies, and even knock out power grids on Earth. In a blog post, NASA said, “On September 5, 2022, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared gracefully through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded – not only an impressive feat of engineering, but a huge boon for the scientific community." In a post on X, it also shared a video and wrote, “Parker Solar Probe has flown through a stream of particles that erupted from the Sun.
No other spacecraft has done this and it’s letting us see how the Sun’s energy interacts with nearby dust particles that were left over from comets and asteroids!" The spacecraft will cover the distance in four months time and will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. The point is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
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