New Delhi. Bharat’s journey towards the sun began today as the maiden flight mission took off precisely at the Sathish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota. It took almost one hour and three minutes for Aditya L1 to begin its 125 days journey to the sun.
The PSLV C57 rocket carrying Aditya L1 soared into the clear skies with a reverberating sound and with the crowds at ISRO expressing their happiness with whistles and claps. Bharat’s ambitious mission to the sun comes close after the achievement of Chandrayaan-3.
PSLV C57 carrying Aditya L1 is the XL variant with longer strap on motors carrying higher fuel quantity. All the flight parameters were absolutely normal. 51 minutes after the launch the first signal was received from the ship borne terminal for tracking the second part of the fourth stage. In a period of four months, Aditya L1 will reach the Lagrange1 point. Where the gravitational forces of a two-body system like the Sun and the Earth produce enhanced regions of attraction and repulsion.
Aditya’sL1 mission is to study the solar winds and the Sun’ s atmosphere. It carries seven payloads to observe the photosphere, chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun, the Corona.
This will help understand the problems of coronal heating. Coronal mass ejection, pre-flare and flare activities, dynamics of weather and the study of the propagation of particles and fields in the interplanetary medium. Soon after Bharat’s successful mission to the moon on the 23rd of August, Bharatiya Space Industry witnessed another journey to the Sun which has been undertaken by four other space Centres in the World.
Bharat has till date launched 431 foreign satellites belonging to 36 countries since 1999 with its rockets and bulk of the numbers were by the PSLV rocket. The rocket has also been used to put into orbit 104 satellites in a single flight.
