India launches first sun-focused space mission, adding to lunar landing win

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From CNN:
"CNN — India launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun, building on a month of historic successes for the country’s civil space efforts.

The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, launched from Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal, at 11:50 a.m. Saturday local time (2:20 am ET). And it’s headed to a parking spot in orbit about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/world/in ... index.html

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From Space.com:
"The nation launched its first-ever solar observatory today (Sept. 2), sending the Aditya-L1 probe skyward atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 2:20 a.m. EDT (0620 GMT; 11:50 a.m. local India time)."

https://www.space.com/india-launches-ad ... olar-probe

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[Graeme1858]

Another interesting mission from the ISO:

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Also here:

viewtopic.php?t=31740

I thought I had a deja vu!

Graeme