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India’s space agency launches rocket to study the sun a little over a week after historic landing on moon’s south pole.
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India’s space agency launches rocket to study the sun a little over a week after historic landing on moon’s south pole.
India’s maiden solar mission — Aditya L1 — on Saturday set off on a 125-day journey to the Sun in its attempt to study various elements relating to Earth’s nearest star, after being put into the orbit by a PSLV rocket that touched a new technical milestone in the launch vehicle
Sriharikota: ISRO on Saturday launched the country's ambitious Solar mission, Aditya L1, eyeing history again after its successful lunar expedition, Chandrayan-3, a few days ago. As the 23.40-hour countdown concluded, the 44.4-metre-tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) soared majestically at the prefixed time of 11.50 am from this spaceport, located on the eastern coast about 135 km from Chennai. It will be
ISRO's Aditya L-1 mission: Exploring the Sun's mysteries and solar flares on a historic journey.
Aditya-L1 will observe the solar corona from about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth