Twin Aeronomy Mission: ISRO plans mission to capture effects of space weather events on
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned a twin aeronomy mission to capture the result of space climate events on the Earth’s climate . The space climate is governed by the eruptive phenomena from the Sun, and that severely the ionosphere-thermosphere complex and the perturbation percolates to the lower altitudes depending on the intensity of the events.
This mission was discussed at the National meeting on Aeronomy research, and that was organised by ISRO on May 10, 2022to discuss the importance and prospect of space-based in-situ survey of the Earth’s upper climate to study the space-weather result . The theme of the meeting was ‘Science of Near-Earth Space & Applications’.
The meeting was attended by representatives of several authority ministries, academicians and scientists from several reputed academic institutions.
ISRO’s Twin Aeronomy Mission: Key Highlights
- ISRO’s mission will be aim to capture the latitudinal and longitudinal effects of space weather events on the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
- ISRO’s Scientific Secretary Shantanu Bhatawdekar informed that the twin Agronomy mission (DISHA-H&L mission) conceptualized by ISRO will be comprise two satellites.
-One at high inclination orbit (DISHA-H)
– Second at low inclination orbit (DISHA-L)
- The two satellites will be at once orbit the Earth at an altitude of approximately 400 km.
- DISHA is an acronym for ‘Disturbed and Quiet time Ionosphere-Thermosphere method at High Altitudes’.
- The twin satellites with identical scientific device will be capture the latitudinal and longitudinal effects of the space weather events on the Earth’s upper climate .
Significance
ISRO Chairman S Somanath emphasised the necessity of bringing out the societal comfort of the proposed DISHA H&L mission and said that it will be supply valuable scientific insight into the effect of space weather events on Earth’s upper climate , and that will be support in the modelling of the ionosphere-thermosphere complex in terms of its response to the space weather events.
even so to ISRO, the mission will be eventually lead to better planning for the safety of the space and ground-based assets.