After The Moon, India Sends Probe To The Sun

After the Moon landing on August 23, India has launched a new space mission to study the Sun.
The rocket was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center facility at Sriharikota, and after 63 minutes and 20 seconds of flight, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft successfully entered an elliptical orbit around Earth.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is betting on a “new space race” and is doing so by launching two missions in two months. First, landing the Chandrayaan-3 unmanned probe, thus becoming the fourth country to land on the moon after the Soviet Union, the United States, and China, and now sending Aditya-L1 that will travel 1.5 million km towards the Sun (which is 150 million km away from Earth). The vehicle will stop, minimizing fuel consumption, at a certain Lagrange point, i.e. in the area where objects, in this case the probe, remain stationary, using the balance of gravitational forces.
“We made sure to get a unique data set that is currently not available to any other mission. This will allow us to understand the Sun, its dynamics, and the inner heliosphere, which is an important element for modern technologies, as well as aspects of space weather,” Sankar Subramanyan, the mission’s lead scientist, told Reuters. Particularly important will be the study of the solar wind – energetic particles emitted by the Sun that can hit satellites in orbit circling the Earth and send them into a tailspin, as has happened more than once.