ISRO Joins Hands With ARIES To Maximise Utilisation Of Data From India's Mission Aditya-L1

Published: 3rd May, 2021

One year before the proposed launch of India’s maiden solar mission — the Aditya L1 — Indian researchers plan to create a skilled community of solar scientists ready to use the scientific data which will emerge from the mission.

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Aditya-L1 Support Cell (AL1SC)

As a first step, the Aditya-L1 Support Cell (AL1SC) has been established at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), which will primarily produce this required trained manpower.
An MoU in this regard was inked between ARIES and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earlier this year.
The Support Cell will be a one-stop online platform for students, faculty and researchers from colleges, universities and institutions in India to get free access to a sample of processed scientific data pertaining to the Sun.
All the data will be hosted at the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) of ISRO with ARIES Cell acting as a manpower training centre.

Aditya L1mission

It is India’s first solar mission.
Launch vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in XL
Led by ISRO, the mission aims to set up a space-based observatory to track the Sun and it is expected to be launched sometime in mid-2022.
The seven payloads (instruments) will study solar corona, solar emissions, solar winds and flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), as well as capture images of the Sun.

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ISRO Joins Hands With ARIES To Maximise Utilisation Of Data From India's Mission Aditya-L1