The Indian Space Agency announced, yesterday evening, that the Indian probe launched towards the solar system to study the sun has left the field of the effect of the Earth's gravity.

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edited by |Jus Mcmahon

 

Space section -  CJ journalist

 

Mumbai– October,1,2023

 

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The Aditya-L1 mission, which means "sun" in Hindi, was launched on the second of September on a four-day journey

Months, carrying scientific instruments to monitor the outer layers of the solar system.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said in a statement that "the probe has exited the sphere of influence of Earth's gravity".

The probe, which bears the same name as the Hindu sun goddess, has traveled a distance of 920 thousand kilometers since takeoff, that is, more than half

The way to his destination.

At this stage, the gravitational forces of the Earth and the sun cancel each other out, allowing the probe to remain in a stable orbit.

"This is the second time in a row that the Indian Space Research Organization has sent a spacecraft," the organization added

Outside the sphere of influence of the Earth's gravity, the first was the Mars Orbiter Mission" in 2013-2014.

Both Japan and China have launched their own Solar Monitoring Missions, but in Earth orbit.

If the new mission of the Indian organization is successful, the probe will be the first to be placed in orbit around the sun by a country

Asian.

The United States and the European Space Agency have put vehicles into orbit to study the sun, starting with the Pioneer satellite program

For the US space agency (NASA) in the Sixties.

"This is a mission," astrophysicist sumak raichuduri told NDTV at the launch of the mission at the beginning of September

Ambitious for India, " noting that the Rover intends to study coronal mass ejections, a cyclical phenomenon that leads to

Enormous discharges of plasma and magnetic energy coming from the atmosphere of the sun.

On August 23, India became the first country to successfully land an unmanned vehicle, Chandrayaan-3, near the pole

The south of the moon is still largely unexplored, and the fourth, which carries out a controlled landing on the moon to join it

To this narrow club.

Before that, only the United States, the USSR and China were the countries that managed to successfully carry out such an operation.

Pragyan, a six-wheeled solar-powered vehicle, has carried out a scientific mission to the South Pole region of the moon

Before you stop working for the duration of the lunar night, that is, about two weeks.

The Indian Space Research Organization intends to extend the mission of its mobile robot by reactivating it as soon as it returns

Light to the surface of the moon, but this machine has not yet responded.

The head of the Indian Space Research Organization, as. Sumanath Wednesday, " there's no problem with the machine not responding, because the vehicle may

She did what was expected of her".

The Indian Space Program was based on a relatively low budget raised after the failure of the first attempt to put a probe into orbit around

The moon in 2008.

Experts believe that India is able to keep the cost of its space program low by copying and modifying existing technology as

It is necessary, thanks to the boom of skilled engineers who receive low salaries compared to their foreign counterparts.

India is scheduled to launch a three-day manned mission to Earth orbit by next year. Plans to conduct a joint mission

With Japan to send a second probe to the moon by 2025, and a mission to Venus orbit within the next two years.

 

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