India's Aditya-L1,survived high-intensity solar storms without any damage, says ISRO
..ISRO’s fleet of 30 spacecraft in geostationary orbit remained unscathed by the solar onslaught. However, because of precautionary measures the some instruments onboard the INSAT-3DS and INSAT-3DR, used by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), were temporarily shut...
During the recent solar storms that caused major signal disruptions in most parts of the world, and made the aurora borealis appear in a number of unusual places, Indian satellites remained resilient. Despite the onslaught of powerful solar storms, India’s Aditya L-1 and Chandrayaan Satellites stayed completely functional and even took some interesting images and collected data, said the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Between May 10 and 11, the Earth was hit as intense solar storms, which originated from the highly active region AR13664 on the sun. This event unleashed a barrage of solar flares, including at least four ‘X’ class (the most intense) and numerous ‘M’ class (moderate intensity) that hit them.
These solar eruptions marked the most potent flares to hit Earth since November 2003. The storms were so powerful that they ignited a spectacular display of aurorae in across numerous places on Earth which usually don’t get to see them. Even some places closer to the equator, such as India’s Ladakh closer got to see them.
Aditya-L1 (आदित्य -L1): Launch and Discussions
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India's Aditya-L1, other satellites survived high-intensity solar storms without any damage, says ISRO
