{"id":31062,"date":"2023-09-01T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T05:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31062"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:19:22","slug":"liquid-apogee-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/liquid-apogee-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About Liquid Apogee Motor:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small but powerful engine going by the acronym \u2018LAM\u2019 will have a critical role to play in the Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) upcoming Aditya-L1 mission\u00a0<strong>meant to study the sun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The successful operation of LAM is vital to ISRO\u2019s plans to place the\u00a0<strong>Aditya spacecraft in a halo orbit at Lagrangian point L1.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Such engines are used for\u00a0<strong>orbital adjustment manoeuvres<\/strong> of satellites\/spacecraft in orbit.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed by the\u00a0<strong>Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre<\/strong> (LPSC), the ISRO centre for liquid and cryogenic propulsion in Thiruvananthapuram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Aditya-L1 mission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the first space-based\u00a0<strong>Indian mission to study the Sun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be launched by the\u00a0<strong>PSLV-XL launch vehicle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft shall be placed in a halo orbit\u00a0<strong>around the Lagrange point 1<\/strong> (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 point has the major advantage of\u00a0<strong>continuously viewing the Sun<\/strong> without any occultation\/eclipses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This will provide a greater advantage in observing solar activities and their effect on space weather in real-time.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft carries\u00a0<strong>seven payloads to observe the photosphere<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>chromosphere and the outermost layers of the Sun\u00a0<\/strong>(the corona) using electromagnetic and particle and magnetic field detectors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/smooth-operation-of-lam-engine-critical-to-aditya-l1-success\/article67252358.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Smooth operation of Liquid Apogee Motor engine critical to Aditya-L1 success<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) is a small but powerful engine going by the acronym \u2018LAM\u2019 will have a critical role to play in the Indian Space Research Organisation\u2019s (ISRO) upcoming Aditya-L1 mission <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}