NEW DELHI, India– India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon.
NEW DELHI, India– India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon.
But if successful, the latest mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation will be the first by any Asian nation to be placed in solar orbit. These bursts are so powerful they can reach the Earth and potentially disrupt the operations of satellites. Aditya -- the name of the Hindu Sun deity -- will travel 1.5 million kilometres to reach its destination.
The South Asian nation has a comparatively low-budget space programme, but one that has grown considerably in size and momentum since it first sent a probe to orbit the Moon in 2008.
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