ISROS ADITYA-1

INDIAS TRYST WITH

SUN!!

INTRODUCTION

Budgeted at Rs 49 crore, Aditya - 1 will be the

first satellite specifically designed to study the
Sun's corona.
The satellite will help to determine why solar
flares
and
solar
winds
disturb
the
communication network and electronics on
earth.
ISRO plans to use the data from the satellite to
better protect its satellites and space ware from
being damaged by hot winds and flares ejected
out of the corona.

MISSION

ISRO initially planned to put the200-kg satellite into an 800

km orbit inin 2012-13 to coincide with the "solar maxima."
The current plan is to launch the satellite between 2017 to
2020. ISRO website suggests that current plans envisage
placing the satellite in a halo orbit around L1
Lagranianpointof
theSun-Earth
systemto
facilitate
continuous viewing of the sun without anyoccultation /
eclipses.
Technical studies have established that a PLSV-XL launcher
would be able to place a satellite ata halo orbit around L1
point.
However, in February 2014, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan
told the press, "The mission would be around the Earth. A few
equipment are being planned for that. We hope for the launch
between 2017 and 2020."

HALO ORBIT

A spacecraft in a halo orbit moves in a circular

path around the Lagrange point, it does not
technically orbit the actual Lagrange point,
because the Lagrange point is just an
equilibrium point with no gravitational pull but
travels in a closed, repeating path near the
Lagrange point.
Halo orbits are the result of a complicated
interaction between the gravitational pull of
the two planetary bodies and the coriolis and
centrifugal accelerations on a spacecraft.

PAYLOADS

The following six proposals have been short-listed for the mission:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), IIA, Bengaluru

Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), IUCAA, Pune
Plasma Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA), SPL/VSSC, Trivandrum
Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX), PRL, Ahmedabad
Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), SAG/ISAC, Bengaluru
High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS), SAG/ISAC,
Bengaluru

The Aditya-1 mission is expected to last for 3 years.

SOLAR
CORONAGRAPH

In the past it has been reported that the satellite will carry a 20-cm diameter visible
wavelength solar coronagraph developed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA).
A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment that blocks out the direct light from a star
(an artificial eclipse of the star) allowing dimly lit nearby objects, otherwise hidden in
the star's glare, to be viewed.
Unlike Aditya, most space-based instruments observe the corona at UV wavelengths
and capture images at a relatively low temporal resolution," says Jagdev Singh, senior
professor of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and principal investigator for the
mission.
"Also, there are no such missions planned between 2012 and 2016 [coinciding with a
solar maximum], during which period Aditya will provide important data.
The coronagraph will observe the solar corona with the help of an artificial eclipse that
will prevent sunlight from directly entering the instrument, revealing to the telescope
only the halo of the corona.
Our emphasis is to go close to the sun surface and click fast-time resolution images
which may be about three or four images per second. The solar coronagraph will click
the images and send data based on which we will be able to conduct research and find
out why the coronas temperature rises to more than a million degrees, says Singh.

PROGRESS

The design of the coronagraph was approved in

end July, 2010 by the Advisory Committee for
Space Research, which comprises ISRO Satellite
Centre, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Udaipur
Solar Observatory, Radio AstronomyCenterand
the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics.
As of July 2010, ISRO was working on the design
of the detectors and the thermal structures.
A prototype of the satellite was to be built in
2011.

REFERENCES

ISRO Website
Wikipedia
http://isp.justthe80.com/space-researchsatellites/aditya-1

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