After the moon, India launches rocket to study the sun - World
The broadcast was watched by 500,000 viewers; Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to travel about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) over 4 months.
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The broadcast was watched by 500,000 viewers; Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to travel about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) over 4 months.
ISRO's Aditya-L1 is the first space observatory for studying the Sun which will travel 1.5 million km from Earth for 125 days & orbit the Lagrangian point L1
Following the success of India's moon landing, the country's space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first solar mission. The rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped, a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) website showed. The broadcast was watched by nearly 500,000 viewers, while thousands gathered at a viewing gallery near the launch site to see the lift-off of the probe, which will aim to study solar winds, which can cause disturbance on earth commonly seen as auroras, Reuters reported.
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