Scientists from Udaipur, a popular travel and wedding destination, have contributed to the solar mission Aditya L-1 by developing one of its payloads. The payload, called Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX), will allow scientists to study the activities of the Sun for 24 hours. Currently, only 10 hours are available for research.
The PSLV has placed the Aditya L-1 spacecraft into the intended orbit and from there it will now start its journey towards the Sun-Earth L-1 point or the Lagrangian Point 1 which is nearly 15 lakh Km away from the earth.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the country's first solar mission, Aditya L-1 on September 2. ISRO informed earlier that the Aditya L-1 will be launched at 11:50 am from Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to provide remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.