India has launched a spacecraft towards the sun in the latest mission of its ambitious space programme. The launch comes a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing. Aditya-L1 launched with a live broadcast, showing the vessel making its way to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. The vessel is carrying scientific instruments to study the sun’s outermost layers in a four-month journey
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
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