Tag: solar probe

Aditya-L1 Completes First Orbit in Halo Trajectory

July 7, 2024

Aditya-L1, India’s first solar observatory spacecraft, has successfully completed its first orbit in the halo trajectory around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1). The spacecraft began its orbit around the Lagrange point on January 6 and took 178 days to complete this initial mission phase. Launched on September 2 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh aboard…

Chinese satellite launched in search of secrets of the Sun

October 19, 2022

Advanced Space Bay Aims to Unravel Sun’s Mysteries SD Solar Observatory (ASO-S) launched successfully Pitch China. The Kuafu-1 satellite launched at 7:43 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, Beijing time. It was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Golia. The spacecraft is in a fixed orbit at an altitude of 720 km above the Earth. Reached…

The first man-made spacecraft to touch the sun

December 16, 2021

NASA has announced that the Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA 3 years ago, has passed through the Sun’s corona. This is considered to be the most serious success of the famous man’s mission to the moon during the famous Apollo 11 mission. A man-made spacecraft was flagged off with the help of modern science…