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India launches rocket to observe sun days after historic moon landing

 Published: 12:16, 3 September 2023

India launches rocket to observe sun days after historic moon landing

India has launched a rocket to study the sun, a little over a week after its successful unmanned landing on the moon.

The Aditya-L1 rocket, carrying scientific instruments to observe the sun’s outermost layers, blasted off at 11:50am (06:20 GMT) on Saturday for its four-month journey.

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