At the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore and other scientific centres across the country, efforts are currently underway to launch India’s first mission to study the sun in 2015 or 2016. The launch of Aditya 1, which was initially proposed at 2012 by then ISRO chairman DR G Madhavan Nair in 2008, will now set sail for space only in 2015-16, plausibly due to unanticipated issues related to instrument designing, fabrication and development, according to experts working on the project. An official said despite the earlier approval, proper funding came only in 2010. After this the payload had to be designed and there were several reviews. All this resulted in a slip in the launch schedule, he said. Kolkata-based solar physicist, Mr Dibyendu Nandi, the first Asian to win the prestigious Karen Harvey prize for 2012 of the American Astronomical Society said: I would like to note that such delays are not unheard of even in NASA missions. Mr Nandi leads the theoretical modelling support for the mission.
Source: Times of India
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