India launches spacecraft to study sun after successful moon landing

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India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, two weeks after it successfully landed an uncrewed craft near the moon’s south pole.

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota Space Center in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.

The spacecraft is equipped with seven payloads to study the sun’s corona, chromosphere, photosphere, and solar wind, the Indian Space Research Organization said.

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