India has launched its observatory to the Sun and is preparing to send astronauts to the moon
On September 2, a launch vehicle with the first Indian solar automatic station Aditya-L1 was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. The spacecraft will operate in orbit around the first Lagrange point in the Sun—Earth system, located at a distance of about one and a half million kilometers from Earth.
The flight will last about a hundred days. The estimated operating time of the station in space is about 5.2 years.exploring the mechanisms of activity and dynamics of the outer layers of our luminary,
The development of Aditya-L1 took 15 years, according to the website of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The station's tasks include studying the dynamics of the outer layers of the Sun, observing coronal loops and mass ejections, flares, magnetic fields in the solar corona and solar wind. This will allow you to learn more about the mechanisms of star activity and to understand the problem of abnormal corona heating, as well as to better predict space weather.
India is going to send its own astronauts to the Earth's natural satellite in the near future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said recently. According to the plan, they will land in the southern polar region of the Moon, where the Chandrayan-3 lander landed on August 23.
Earlier, ISRO announced that it would try to carry out a manned flight of the Gaganyaan spacecraft into low Earth orbit by the end of 2024.
The Gaganyaan mission involves the safe transportation of astronauts to space and back. The most important component of this mission is the deployment of braking parachutes, which play a key role in stabilizing the crew module and reducing its speed to a safe level when entering the atmosphere. In August, a series of tests on the deployment of the braking parachute was successfully carried out.
Crew training for Gaganyaan is underway at the Astronaut Training Center in Bangalore. The training modules cover academic courses, "Gaganyaan Flight Systems", introduction to microgravity through parabolic flights, aeromedical training, recovery and survival training. Yoga is also included in the training program.
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