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Pradeep Kumar

18/04/21 09:20 AM IST

Support centre for Aditya-L1

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The Indian programme to study the Sun and the region between the Sun and the Earth from space – Aditya-L1 – is due to be launched next year.

Details
  • It will carry seven payloads which have been developed by various institutions across the country.
  • Once the mission is launched, there will be a need for a ground support centre to monitor and coordinate the work on its various payloads.
  • This role will be played by the ARIES facility (short for Aryabhata Research Institute for observational Sciences) which is situated near Nainital.
  • With about four to five personnel, this centre will come up at Haldawani, where ARIES is setting up a data centre.
  • The Aditya-L1 Support Centre (ASC) will provide training through regular workshops for the guest users.
  • Apart from this, it will provide ready-to-use Python and Java apps for the satellite data and demos and handouts to facilitate the guest users.
  • An ARIES team has recently developed an algorithm to study the accelerating solar eruptions in the lower corona called CMEs Identification in Inner Solar Corona (in short, CIISCO), where CME stands for coronal mass ejection. 
Long-term plans
  • The centre will host a compendium of the location and duration of different features on the solar surface such as coronal holes, prominences, flares, CMEs and sunspots.
  • “This centre will expand the visibility of Aditya-L1 beyond India at the international level.
  • Also, it will expand its reach within India. It will allow every interested individual to be able to perform scientific analysis of the data.
Source: The Hindu

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