Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to replicate India’s IT boom in the field of space, according to a government official speaking to Reuters. The efforts of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) demonstrate the country’s commitment to becoming a major player in space exploration. Just one week after the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, ISRO has already launched a rocket carrying Aditya-L1, India’s first dedicated mission to observe the sun.
Aditya-L1 will travel a distance of 930,000 miles over a period of four months until it reaches the L1 Lagrange Point, located between the sun and our planet. The L1 Lagrange Point is a point of equilibrium between two massive orbiting bodies, where objects tend to remain stationary, thus minimizing the spacecraft’s fuel consumption. The spacecraft will remain in orbit to collect data that scientists hope will provide insights into the reason behind the sun’s corona being hotter than its surface.
Additionally, the mission aims to gather information on the effects of solar radiation and various solar phenomena…
2023-09-02 06:15:48
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