Why India Launched Aditya-L1 Mission As Its First Space Probe To Study The Sun, Weeks After Landing on the Moon
Weeks after the India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully landed the Chandrayaan-3 lander on the lunar surface, the agency is already on its way to the Sun. On September 2, ISRO launched the Aditya-L1 mission atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 2:20 a.m. EDT (0620 GMT; 11:50 a.m. …
