The L1 point of insertion of India's first solar mission Aditya L1 will take place on January 6, 2024, Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath said on Saturday.
However, Somnath said the time of deployment of the spacecraft has not yet been decided.
“The Lagrangian point (L1) insertion of Aditya L1 will take place on January 6, 2024, but the time has not yet been determined,” Chief Somnath said on Saturday.
Earlier on September 2, ISRO launched the country's first solar mission, Aditya-L1, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, after the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the moon's south pole.
In December, ISRO said that the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) of its first solar mission, Aditya L1, is operational.
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“The Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload, is operational. The histogram illustrates the energy variations in the number of protons and alpha particles recorded by SWIS over two days,” ISRO said. in a message on X.
According to the ISRO statement, the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload on board India's Aditya-L1 satellite is functioning normally.
ASPEX consists of two advanced instruments: the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS) and STEPS (SupraThermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer).
The STEPS instrument became operational on September 10, 2023. The SWIS instrument was activated on November 2, 2023 and has delivered optimal performance, the statement said.
ISRO further stated that the ASPEX has started measuring solar wind ions.
On November 7, ISRO in its update noted that the spectrometer on board Aditya-L1 recorded the impulsive phase of solar flares during the first observation period from about October 29, 2023.
The X-ray spectrometer HEL1OS, attached to the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, has captured the first high-energy X-ray glimpse of solar flares.
Meanwhile, ISRO had said that Aditya-L1 will neither land on the Sun nor come closer to the Sun.
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Published: Dec 24, 2023 6:54 PM IST