Rise With the Sun: 10 Days After the Chamndrayaan-3 Historical Landing on the Lunar South Pole, India Launches the Aditya-L1 Space Probe To Conduct Solar Studies
It was noon at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, and the Indian SPLV rocket left a trail of fire and smoke as it gained the skies in yet another space mission, a mere 10 days after the historical soft landing on the Moon’s south pole by the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
The Aditya-L1 space probe will study the sun, in another demonstration of India’s unwavering commitment to become one of planet Earth’s great space superpowers.
Asia Nikkei reported:
“Just over a week after it became the first nation to soft-land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, India on Saturday launched another ambitious mission, this time to study the sun.
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Aditya-L1 — Aditya means the sun in Sanskrit — lifted off around noon local time from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,
