After the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon, India’s space research agency ISRO has successfully launched the solar mission ‘Aditya-L1’ to study the Sun, with this, India has taken an important step towards studying the Sun.
Seeing India’s space program reach new heights daily, former International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield praised ISRO. Praising India’s technological prowess, Chris Hadfield said that India has put itself in a strong position by working on space and related technologies.
Chris Hadfield said, “Space commerce, GPS satellites, weather satellites, telecommunications, exploration on the Moon, exploration on the Sun, it’s all happened in less than a lifetime. So it’s not so much a space race as it is everybody else. There’s a new opportunity in space.”
Scientist Hadfield added, “Now the race is about who can advance the technology economically and make the space business profitable. India is actually in a very strong position to do that. Government of India Space Business It is also developing and promoting privatization so businesses and the people of India can benefit.”
Chris Hadfield also praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the success of India’s space mission. He said, ‘It seems that PM Modi has seen this for many years. He is directly associated with ISRO. Promoting space missions is a wise move by the Indian leadership.’
Like Chandrayaan-3, ‘Aditya-L1’ will orbit the Earth at high altitudes and fly faster towards the Sun. ‘Aditya-L1’ will reach a height of about 15 lakh kilometres from the Earth. After getting such a height, it is estimated that it will overcome the gravitational force between the Earth and the Sun.
It will stop at a point (Lagrange Point) named L1 in the scientific language during this time. The ‘Aditya-L1’ spacecraft will cover this distance in about four months. From here, he will study various activities of the Sun, internal and external environment, etc.
Let us tell you that India has opened the work of space launch to private companies, and possibilities of foreign investment are being explored in this field. The government aims to increase its share in the global launch market by five times in the next decade.
