Mumbai: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somnath participated in the annual Science and Technology Festival of IIT Bombay and announced that the Aditya L1 spacecraft is set to reach its cosmic destination, Lagrange Point 1 (L1) on January 6. 2024. Speaking at the three-day annual science and technology fest, S Somnath said, “Aditya-L1 is scheduled to reach the Lagrange Point at 4 pm on January 6.” “Chandrayaan-3 has been a huge success.
This gives us and the team a lot of confidence to work on the programs. After 14 days of my contribution of collecting data, it is now sleeping very well there, so I recommend ours,” he said. “It will not be woken up again so it is sleeping forever, but unfortunately We were hoping that it would wake up to its potential but that did not happen.” “Many things could have gone wrong and that is why it could not wake up again,” he said.
“Probably if Pragyan (rover) wakes up, it will not be known until communication is established between Pragyan and Vikram.” The ISRO chief said, “We are hopeful that whatever data we have collected in the 14 days will give us a great scientific result in the coming days. Our scientists are working on it right now.” Earlier this week, the ISRO chief along with BJP leader Rivaba Jadeja attended the 7th National Conference organized by the Students Parliament in Vadodara, Gujarat.
Following the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the Moon’s south pole, ISRO launched the country’s first solar mission – Aditya-L1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on September 2. Earlier in the month, ISRO reported that the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) of its first solar mission, Aditya L1, is operational.
