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PremiumAditya L1 Launch Live Updates: ISRO on Sunday said it has successfully performed the first earth-bound manoeuvre of the country's maiden solar mission, Aditya L1, from ISTRAC here. The space agency also said the satellite is healthy and operating nominally. The next manoeuvre is scheduled for September 5, 2023, around 03:00 Hrs.
ISRO's spacecraft succesfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Saturday. With this, India inched one step closer for the completion of its maiden Solar expedition. ISRO's trusted PSLV will carry the Aditya L1 mission on a 125-day voyage to the Sun.
The Aditya L1 spacecraft will stay in Earth's orbit for sixteen days. After four months of journey, the satellite will be placed on the L1 point in the halo orbit around the Sun.
Aditya L1 launched successfully from Satish Dhawan Space Cenre in Sriharikota on Saturday. The launch was declared successful after the satellite was placed into Earth's elliptical orbit. Now, the space agency will perform orbit raising exercise within fixed duration. The first orbit raising exercise will be performed on Sunday.
Aditya L1 is designed to provide remote observations of the Solar corona and conduct in-situ observations of the Solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.
In case you missed the launch of Aditya L1 on Saturday, click here to watch it now.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday congratulated ISRO and the scientists on the successful launch of India's first solar mission Aditya-L1.
Shortly after the successful takeoff of PSLV-C57, carrying the Aditya satellite from Sriharikota, Vijayan in a social media post said that it was another "momentous achievement" for India in space research.
"India marks another momentous achievement in space research as #AdityaL1 sets off on its mission to explore the secrets of the Sun and its atmosphere. Hats off to@isro and the incredible team that made this possible. Together, we reach for the stars!," Vijayan posted on X, formerly Twitter.
India's maiden solar mission--Aditya L1, on Saturday set off on a 125-day journey to the Sun in its attempt to study various elements relating to Earth's nearest star, after being put into the orbit by a PSLV rocket that touched a new technical milestone in the launch vehicle segment.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who witnessed the launch from the Mission Control Centre (MCC) here, dubbed it as a "Sunshine moment" for the country.
"Congratulations! The Aditya-L1 spacecraft has been injected in an elliptical orbit of 235/19,500 km which is intended very precisely, by the PSLV, a very unique mission mode here, with the upper stage of the PSLV taking two burn sequences for injecting the primary satellite for the first time," ISRO Chairman S Somanath said from the MCC.
"I want to congratulate PSLV for such a very different mission approach today to do this mission of Aditya L1 to put it into the right orbit. From now, the Aditya L1 will take its journey...after some earth manoeuvres it will start its journey to the L1 point, a very long journey of almost 125 days. So let us wish all the best to Aditya L1 spacecraft for its long journey to put it into the Halo orbit of L1," he said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday hailed the successful launch of the country's first solar mission Aditya-L1.
In a post in Hindi on 'X', Adityanath said, "PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 mission was successfully launched today, symbolises the potential of 'New India' with the mission to serve the entire humanity. Many wishes for the complete success of this prestigious mission to become the 'new Sun' of the hopes of 140 crore countrymen under the leadership of the respected prime minister!"
"Along with the Moon, now the Sun will also witness the power of 'self-reliant India'. Hearty congratulations to the entire team including @isro!," Adityanath said.
Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra on Saturday took to microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) to say that while ‘Don’t fly too close to the Sun’ was used to define ‘over ambition’ of Greek god Icarus, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) can successfully change the meaning with the launch of Aditya L1.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Aditya L1 is expected to reach on its decided orbit near the Sun after four months in January next year.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched the Solar mission on Saturday. After the launch, the spacecraft will be placed in a Low Earth Orbit. Later, teh orbit will be made more elliptical, later it will be launched to L1 point. (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: After the successful launch of ISRO's mission to the Sun, ISRO Chief S Somnath congratulated the PSLV while wishing the best to the Aditya L-1 spacecraft.
“I congratulate PSLV for such a very different mission approach to do the Aditya-L1 Mission, to put it in the right orbit. From now, the Mission will start its journey to the L1 point. It's a very long journey of almost 125 days. Let us wish all the best to Aditya Spacecraft". (Read more)
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: ISRO successfully launched Aditya L1 Mission from Sriharikota launchpat in Andhra Pradesh by the PSLV-C57 rocket. Here are few visuals of the exciting moment. (Full story here)
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: After the successful launch of Aditya L1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and many other leaders extended their greetings to ISRO team for its success. (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 Launch Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his congratulations for the successful launch of Aditya L1 into an elliptical orbit.
"Our tireless scientific efforts will continue in order to develop a better understanding of the Universe for the welfare of entire humanity." tweeted PM Modi.
Aditya L1 Mission Launch LIVE: Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh congratulated the team of ISRO for the successful launch of ISRO. He called the launch to be a ‘sunshine moment for India.’
Aditya L1 Launch: Confirming the successful launch of Aditya L1 mission, ISRO Chief S Somanath said that Aditya L1 was injected in elliptical orbit. It will start its journey to L1 point after some maneuvers.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Fourth stage of the PSLV carrying Aditya L1 has been achieved.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: "I was very excited and it's a sigh of relief that finally, we have been able to successfully lift off the Aditya-L1 Mission," says a student at BITM Kolkata after the launch of ISRO's Aditya-L1 Mission.
Aditya L1 Mission: The fourth stage of Aditya L1 launch has begun. under this phase, second burning phase of PSLV rocket
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: During the launch of Aditya L1 mission, energetic crowd celebrated the moment by chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: During his visit in Raipur, Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the team of ISRO scientists. “I extend heartiest congratulations to everyone on the launch of mission Aditya," said Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Chhattisgarh's Raipur.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: Spectators who came to the Space Centre to witness the historic landing continued to cheer and chant slogans amid the launch of the spacecraft.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: The major objectives of India's solar mission includes observing different phenomena on the Sun.
Following are the main objectives of Aditya L1 mission:
-Study of Solar upper atmospheric (chromosphere and corona) dynamics.
-Study of chromospheric and coronal heating, physics of the partially ionized plasma, initiation of the coronal mass ejections, and flares
-Observe the in-situ particle and plasma environment providing data for the study of particle dynamics from the Sun.
-Physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism.
-Diagnostics of the coronal and coronal loops plasma: Temperature, velocity and density.
-Development, dynamics and origin of CMEs.
-Identify the sequence of processes that occur at multiple layers (chromosphere, base and extended corona) which eventually leads to solar eruptive events.
-Magnetic field topology and magnetic field measurements in the solar corona .
-Drivers for space weather (origin, composition and dynamics of solar wind .
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: ISRO's space launch successfully completed the third stage of its launch.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: Heading forward on its trajectory, ISRO spacecraft sucessfully moving ahead and completing different stages of launches. Currently, the spacecraft has successfully completed its third stage.
Third stage of the Aditya L1 mission launch completed successfully.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: ISRO's mission Aditya L1 is currently under its third stage.
ADitya L1 Mission Launch LIVE Updates: After the completion of second stage, third stage of the launch is ignited
Aditya L1 Launch LAtest updates: Second stage performance has begun.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Final checks are being done minutes before the launch of Aditya L1.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: Aditya L1 prepares for lift off from Satish Dhawan Space centre.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: Watch the live telecast of the launch of Aditya L1 mission on the official YouTube channel of Aditya L1.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Six payloadds that are being carried with Aditya L1 spacecraft will remain inactive till January 2023, till the time, they are not inserted into a 'halo' orbit near L1.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Karnataka's Deputy CM DK Shivakumar extended his best wishes to the entire team of ISRO ahead of the the launch of Aditya L1.
Aditya L1 Mission Live Updates: Space expert Somak Raychaudhury said that India's mission to the Sun has the capacity to make a "big bang in terms of science," reported Reuters.
Somak Raychaudhury, who was involved in the development of some components of the observatory.
"There have been episodes when major communications have gone down because a satellite has been hit by a big corona emission. Satellites in low earth orbit are the main focus of global private players, which makes the Aditya L1 mission a very important project," he said.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: The Solar spacecraft will travel about 1.5 million km over four months to enter the decided orbit around sun, ie L1. At L1 is a kind of parking lot in space where objects tend to stay put because of balancing gravitational forces, reducing fuel consumption for the spacecraft.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: Former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said that the satellite will be placed around Lagrangian Point 1. He said that the data from the space mission will explain different phenomena.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: As India gears up for the final countdown of its mission to the Sun, astronaut Chris Hadfield said, “So when we put something like Aditya L-1 up there in between us and the Sun to sense those things, to better understand how the sun works and the threats that it has to the earth, it's good for everybody for protecting us as people." (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE Updates: As we are nearly an hour away from the launch of India's mission to the Sun, students performed ‘Surya Namaskar’ at the Doon Yoga Peeth for its success on Saturday.
The Surya Namaskar was performed in the presence of spiritual guru Acharya Bipin Joshi.
Aditya L 1 Launching LIVE: India's solar spacecraft consists of seven payloads. All of them are indigenously developed by different laboratories in India.
Its VELC instrument is made at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore; SUIT instrument at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics , Pune; ASPEX instrument at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; PAPA payload at Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; SoLEXS and HEL1OS payloads at U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bangalore, and the Magnetometer payload at the Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems, Bangalore. All the payloads are developed with the close collaboration of various centres of ISRO.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: India's solar mission will also observe geomagnetic storms and other phenomena on the Sun. Notably, these phenomena led to the inactivity of at least 40 of the 49 satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX. (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Ahead of the launch of India's mission to space, Congress leader Surendra Rajput congratulated all the scientists of ISRO.
Aditya L1 Live Updates: Astronomer Professor RC Kapoor on Saturday called the final day of the launch of India's solar mission as the day of utmost importance. "The most important instrument on Aditya L1 will study the Corona of the Sun. Normally, which can only be studied during full solar eclipse," he added.
India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon.
Aditya-L1 will carry scientific instruments to observe the Sun's outermost layers, blasting off at 11:50 am (0620 GMT) for its four-month journey.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: BM Birla Planetarium will also live telecast the launch of India's solar mission on Saturday. (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: Ahead of the launch of India's mission to the Sun poet cum diplomat Abhay K presented his Sun Anthem to immortalise the moment.
The anthem goes as follows: "Home star, you’re never too far. Lighting up our lives wherever we are. On Moon or Mars, near or far, home star, you’re never too far. Keeping us all from drifting apart in the deep dark galactic bar. Igniting the skies each day in the Orion spur of the Milky Way."
"Streaming light across the dark space. Primeval god, Universe’s glowing face. Home star, you’re never too far. Lighting up our lives wherever we are"
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: One of the spectators who have come to watch the launch of Indian spacecraft of solar mission expressed her happiness to witness the launching of Adiya L1.
"This is the first time, I have come here. We can't explain our happiness," says Bama, who arrived at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota from Chennai to watch the launch," said one of the visitors.
Aditya L1 Launch LIVE Updates: PSLV XL rocket is the common link between most of India's space programms. The rocket will be carrying Aditya L1 spacecraft and had earlier powered launches to the Moon and Mars.
Aditya L1 Launching LIVE: If successful, India's mission to the Sun will be the first by any Asian nation to be placed in a solar orbit.
Aditya L1 Mission LIVE: Major objectives of India's solar mission include the study of the physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism, the solar wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and flares and near-earth space weather.
Aditya L1 Mission Launch LIVE: Ahead of the launch of India's space mission, spectators have started arriving at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. One of the visitors expressed his happiness to be able to witness the launch.
Aditya L1 Launch: For the first time an Indian spacecraft, Aditya L1 will provide data on the visible emission line and solar corona. (Read full story here)
Aditya L1 mission LIVE: Ahead of the launch of India's solar mission, people acrosss the nation are praying for its success. In Varanasi, devotees are performing havan for the success of India's maiden mission to the Sun.
Aditya-L1 Mission LIVE: Ahead of the launch of the spacecraft, take a look at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
