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A new NOAA satellite, SWFO-L1, is launching to replace aging space weather monitoring satellites like ACE and DSCOVR, which are beyond their operational lifespans. This satellite will provide critical real-time data on solar wind and magnetic activity from Lagrange Point 1, helping to predict and prepare for solar storms that can disrupt technology and power grids on Earth.
India's Aditya-L1 solar observatory has successfully performed a trajectory correction maneuver to ensure it reaches its intended destination, a gravitationally stable area known as Earth-sun Lagrange point 1, around 1 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft, carrying seven payloads, will have an uninterrupted view of the sun from this location for its five-year mission to study the sun. This marks India's second spacecraft to venture beyond Earth's sphere of influence, following the Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013.
The Aditya-L1 spacecraft, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), has successfully escaped the sphere of Earth's influence and is now on its way to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1). Aditya-L1 is India's first mission dedicated to studying the Sun and will operate in a 'Halo orbit' around L1. The mission aims to understand various aspects of the Sun, including coronal heating, solar wind acceleration, and solar wind distribution.