{"id":601677,"date":"2023-09-04T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601677"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:28:43","slug":"indias-first-solar-observatory-mission-aditya-l1-takes-off-to-study-the-sun-salute-to-u-r-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-first-solar-observatory-mission-aditya-l1-takes-off-to-study-the-sun-salute-to-u-r-rao\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 takes off to study the sun, salute to U.R. Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Aditya-L1 spacecraft launched on Saturday to study the Sun evolved from an idea for a single-instrument satellite into a full-fledged solar observatory through exhortations over 12 years ago by a late space scientist active in his 80s.<\/p>\n<p>The late professor U.R. Rao, a former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), played a key role in coaxing solar physicists in the country to expand their ambitions \u2014 reimagine a 110kg satellite into a seven-instrument 1,480kg spacecraft, Aditya-L1 project scientists said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told us: stop taking baby steps and think bigger,\u201d said Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Aryabhatta Research Institute for Observational Sciences, an astronomical observatory in Nainital, who was among a group of scientists who first proposed a satellite for solar studies in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Aditya-L1 spacecraft launched on Saturday to study the Sun evolved from an idea for a single-instrument satellite into a full-fledged solar observatory through exhortations over 12 years ago by a late space scientist active in his 80s. The late professor U.R. Rao, a former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), played a key role in coaxing solar physicists in the country to expand their ambitions \u2014 reimagine a 110kg satellite into a seven-instrument 1,480kg spacecraft, Aditya-L1 project scientists said on Saturday. \u201cHe told us: stop taking baby steps and think bigger,\u201d said Dipankar Banerjee, director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}