Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Aditya L1 is first dedicated solar satellite launched by ISRO on 2nd September 2023 for studying the atmosphere of sun. It has a combination of 4 remote sensing and 3 in-situ payloads.
This project is in the nal approval stage. The plan is for a 2-m class ground based facility, at Merak, Ladakh. The site has been allotted to IIA for the establishment of the NLST.
SUIT is a full disk NUV imaging instrument on Aditya L1.
PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Suns corona become the solar wind that lls the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites will work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock, scheduled for launch in 2025.
We have 100 years of synoptic data in several wavelengths as observed from the Kodaikanal Solar observatory. We have digitized this data and archived in the IIA data centre. I have been involved in the archiving process, calibration and now we are working with the calibrated data from this archive. This data has been made available to the public through a portal hosted at https://kso.iiap.res.in
Joint Observing Program (JOP) and Hinode Observing Program (HOP) are the highest priority co-ordinated observing program for solar observations using ground and space based instruments, namely SoHO, Trace, Hinode etc. These proposals are accepted through TAC.
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology