‘IUCAA’ Played Major Role in ISRO’s ‘Aditya L-1’ : Special Equipment Made In Pune
An indigenous observatory to observe the sun was dreamed up by Pune scientists in 2011-12. After almost a decade of waiting, the solar observatory ‘Aditya L-1’ is going into space for a journey of 15 lakh kilometers from the earth on Saturday (2nd September).
As per information, scientists and engineers at the Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) expressed the feeling that the dream is coming true after culmination of efforts and immense patience. The concept of ‘Aditya L-1’ and one of its devices has been developed by IUCAA.
Aditya L-1 was launched from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on Saturday.
“IUCAA” Professors A. N. Ramprakash and Durgesh Tripathi have developed the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) in collaboration with ISRO. It was in IUCAA that the concept of SUIT was developed. Initially, the idea was to have a solar observatory orbiting the Earth. But later, with the help of ‘ISRO’, the concept of today’s observatory came up. Even during Corona, our scientists continued to work and developed the important equipment of ‘Aditya L-1’. Many universities and research institutes across the country have participated in this.
India’s ambitious solar mission is just a few hours away and on 2nd September, the spacecraft ‘Aditya L-1’ was launched into space for the study of the sun at 11:50 am by the launch pad ‘PSLV’.
Just ten days after India’s successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, the second major space mission is about to begin. The main objective of this mission is to study the Sun’s halo and study the solar wind from there by reaching L-1.
