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India Follows its Lunar Mission by Sending a Spacecraft to Study the Sun


Amid its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon, India’s space agency launched another satellite and this one will study the Sun. The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, is bound for the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point, located 1.5 million km from Earth.

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