Hot on the heels of its lunar landing success, India is readying to blast a probe even deeper into space to study the sun.
The country’s first solar observation mission, named Aditya-L1, is set to be launched from India’s main spaceport on Sriharikota, an island off the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, at 11:50 a.m. local time on Saturday. The spacecraft is scheduled to spend 125 days traveling 1.5 million kilometers to its destination, a point in space where objects stay put and consume less fuel.
For ISRO, success would be another major feat after India became the first country to land a spacecraft close to the lunar south pole in August. China has two such spacecraft orbiting Earth, including the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory launched last year to investigate solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
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