The successful functioning of the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine is essential for the accomplishment of the Aditya-L1 mission.
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| Liquid Apogee Motor engines are used for orbital adjustment manoeuvres of satellites/spacecraft in orbit. Photo: X/@ISRO via PTI |
The LAM utilized in the Mars and moon missions will be employed for the Aditya-L1 mission, as stated by V. Narayanan, Director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre at ISRO."
The forthcoming Aditya-L1 mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will involve a compact yet potent engine referred to as 'LAM' (Liquid Apogee Motor), which will hold a crucial role in studying the sun.
The successful functioning of the LAM is pivotal for ISRO's ambitions to position the Aditya spacecraft within a halo orbit at Lagrangian point L1.
Engineered by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), situated in Thiruvananthapuram and dedicated to liquid and cryogenic propulsion, the LAM has played a significant part in various missions, including the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of 2014 and the more recent Chandrayaan-3.
In essence, LAM engines are employed to carry out orbital adjustments and maneuvers for satellites and spacecraft already in orbit. For the Aditya-L1 mission, ISRO is set to utilize an identical LAM to the one employed in previous Mars and moon missions, as confirmed by LPSC Director V. Narayanan.
ISRO labels Aditya-L1 as the inaugural 'space-based observatory class Indian solar mission' aimed at investigating the Sun."