On 23rd August 2023 India’s Lunar Mission Chandrayaan 3 successfully landed on the Moon’s south Pole and became the first country to achieve this feat and 4th Nation after USA, Russia and China to land successfully on Moon. This Day is marked as “Indian Space Day” and the rover landing point is named as ” Shivshakti Point” by PMO India, Shree Narendra Modi Jee during a press conference addressing to ISRO scientists.
ISRO has sent the Chandrayaan 3 rover in sleep mode as 15 days of Day and 15 days of night on Moon and in the absence of sunlight rover’s battery will not charge will wake up after 15days. The Pragyan rover is loaded with two payloads; the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and the Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS). Pragan Rover has traversed over 100 meters and continuing on Moon surface
According to ISRO ” The Rover completed its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into Sleep mode. APXS and LIBS payloads are turned off. Data from these payloads is transmitted to the Earth via the Lander. Currently, the battery is fully charged. The solar panel is oriented to receive the light at the next sunrise expected on September 22, 2023. The receiver is kept on. Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments! Else, it will forever stay there as India’s lunar ambassador.
Now ISRO has launched, Solar Mission Aditya L1 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 11.50 PM on 2nd Sept. 2023. Aditya will travel 15 lakh kilometers(930,000 mi) from Earth in 109 Earth days and start to orbit SUN. The mission duration is 5.2 years (planned) withy 2 days (elapsed), a Launch mass 1,475 kg (3,252 lb), Payload mass 244 kg (538 lb).
Aditya is the another of Sun in ” Sanskrit the mission has an allocated cost of ₹378 crores only and the Solar mission has 7 payloads on the board with four for remote sensing of the Sun and three for in-situ observation.
According to Wikipedia how the Solar Mission will work, Step by Step?:-
| PayLords | Capability | |
| Remote Sensing Payloads | Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer(HEL1OS) | Corona/Imaging and spectroscopy Photosphere and chromosphere imaging- narrow and broadband Soft X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation Hard X-ray spectrometer: Sun-as-a-star observation |
| In-situ Payloads | Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA) Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers | Solar wind/Particle analyzer protons and heavier ions with directions Solar wind/Particle Analyzer Electrons and Heavier Ions with directions In-situ magnetic field (Bx, By and Bz). |
I am sure Mission Sun, Aditya L1 will create history like ” Chandrayaan 3″ and after a successful Solar Mission India will be a superpower in Space. What do you think? Can ISRO do wonders for US. Be the First to share your views with us.
Weldone Team ISRO and India Congratulations