ISRO successfully deployed the magnetometer boom on Aditya-L1 satellite, enabling it to measure low-intensity interplanetary magnetic field at Lagrange point L-1 for India's first solar mission.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully deployed the magnetometer boom on the Aditya-L1 satellite, allowing it to measure the low-intensity interplanetary magnetic field in space. The 6-meter-long boom was deployed at the Lagrange point L-1 on January 11, after being in stowed condition since the Aditya-L1 launch in September 2022. The boom carries two state-of-the-art, high-accuracy fluxgate magnetometer sensors, which measure the magnetic field at distances of 3 and 6 meters from the spacecraft body, helping to cancel out the spacecraft's own magnetic influence. The Aditya-L1 mission is India's first solar mission, aimed at understanding the chromospheric and coronal dynamics of the Sun.

January 25, 2024
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