India's upcoming space missions are Astrosat and Aditya. The expected launch of Astrosat is in the year 2015 while that of Aditya is 2017-18. In this post, I will briefly describe about the Aditya mission.
Aim:
To study the Sun, the fundamental problems of coronal heating and other phenomena that take place in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Payloads:
Description:
Mass: 400 kg
Cost: 100 crore rupees (estimated)
Orbit: Near Earth Orbit of 800 km
Objectives:
Aim:
To study the Sun, the fundamental problems of coronal heating and other phenomena that take place in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Payloads:
1. Advanced Solar Coronagraph
2. Ultraviolet Imager Telescope (to observe the entire solar disc for solar storms)
3. High Energy X-ray Imager (to scan smaller region of the solar disc to study flares)
4. Wind Particle Detector (to sample the solar wind)
5. Soft X-ray Spectrometer
6. Variable Emission Coronagraph
Description:
Mass: 400 kg
Cost: 100 crore rupees (estimated)
Orbit: Near Earth Orbit of 800 km
Objectives:
1. To study the coronal mass ejection.
2. To study the crucial physical parameters for space weather such as the coronal magnetic field structures, evolution of the coronal magnetic field etc.
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