The payload ‘Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment’ onboard India’s Aditya-L1 satellite has started functioning and is functioning normally. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) gave this information on Saturday.
ISRO successfully launched the Aditya-L1 spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on September 2. According to ISRO, ‘Aditya-L1’ is the first space-based observatory to study the Sun. It is studying the Sun from a halo around the Lagrangian point ‘L1’, located about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
ISRO said in a statement that Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) consists of two state-of-the-art instruments Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS) and Suprathermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS).
The STEPS tool was launched on September 10, 2023. The SWIS tool was activated on November 2, 2023 and has performed well. According to ISRO the instrument has successfully measured solar wind ions, mainly protons and alpha particles.
