Indi’s maiden solar Exploratory Mission,
ADITYA-L1 satellite, to take off in the coming days, will carry
seven scientific payloads, indigenously developed by different
laboratories in the country, to carry out systematic study of the
Sun’s surface.
ISRO said the Aditya-L1 mission carries a suit of seven scientific
payloads to carry out systematic study of the Sun.
The Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) studies the solar
corona and dynamics of Coronal Mass Ejections.
The Solar Ultra-violet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) payload images
the Solar Photosphere and Chromosphere in near Ultra-violet (UV)
and also measures the solar irradiance variations in near UV.
The Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) and Plasma
Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA) payloads study the solar wind
and energetic ions, as well as their energy distribution.
The Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) and The High
Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) studies the X-ray
flares from the Sun over a wide X-ray energy range.
The Magnetometer payload is capable of measuring interplanetary
magnetic fields at the L1 point.
The science payloads of Aditya-L1 are indigenously developed by
different laboratories in the
country.
The VELC instrument is developed 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 the
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.
