India has launched its first mission to sun

India has launched its first mission to sun

well in the past hour India has launched its first observation mission to study the sun large crowds gathered to watch the rocket carrying the adithia L1 satellite Blast Off from the three Harry Potter Space Center in the southern
state of Andhra Pradesh now the probe aims to work out what drives space weather and gather a better understanding of the Dynamics of solar wind it's 1.5 million kilometers orbit around the Earth will give it a clear view of our nearest star and those pictures of Aditya launching from its space station a little bit earlier on we can go live now to Mumbai to our reporter Jean V moule jean-vee and clearly another big moment for India it is and in fact it is much more ambitious than uh chandrayantri Mission because uh this is this time the spacecraft is expected to travel four times the distance between Earth and Moon that is around 1.5 million kilometers uh which may seem a little municical compared to the distance between Earth and Sun but it is a place from where the spacecraft should be able to study Sun the outer atmosphere of our closest star in a few minutes we are expecting a confirmation on how the launch went uh remember this is not a very powerful rocket in the world but it's one of the most trusted rockets that ISRO that is Indian space research organization has and it is expected to carry this spacecraft into a certain orbit around Earth from where it will keep orbiting our planet and gain velocity and ultimately will be launched towards the point L1 which is a point between Earth and Sun where gravitational pull from both of these is quite neutral meaning that spacecraft
would be able to hover in that region it's something similar to the James Swift telescope that NASA has on the other side of the earth and on this side at Point L1 Aditya L1 isro's spacecraft is expected to study sun it's a is the First Solar
Observatory of this kind that India is sending out so it's definitely a massive movement for all the space enthusiasts
in country yes and as you saw a village there it's going to take a while to get there everything like 125 days in terms of how people are feeling about this launch clearly there's a lot of fanfare around Chandra and three and that went very well and it was a real moment for the country how are people feeling about this mission well for the first time in many days I'm seeing people coming out on street for some scientific achievement otherwise this is something that is reserved for uh let's say a big Sports Victory or a political Victory and those were the scenes that we actually saw after chandrayaan three's Lander touched down on moon and since then there is definitely an increase in interest in everything that is related to space and that is something uh which people are watching because this is a young country
with a technology that has put India in space so obviously for in terms of future exploration there's a lot of interest especially among youngsters but beyond that there is also there are also scientific experiments that are being carried out carrying that will be carried out remember India has about 50 odd satellites hovering around Earth and those are important for the country uh for about the country of 130 billion and people so in terms of protecting those satellites study of solar winds and solar plasma is also equally important and Aditya L1 is going to help in that mission that is what scientists are hoping for okay thank you very much for joining us from Mumbai our BBC reporter there and earlier on we just we're seeing pictures of the engineers celebrating the success of the two rockets um separating and here we are um these are the engineers and all the staff behind the mission clear a lot of effort goes into this and it's months and months of planning and execution and um yes lots of joyous expressions and
hugging and shaking of hands there