India looks towards the Sun following their lunar landing

        India's space agency announced on Monday that it will launch a satellite to observe the Sun just days after becoming the first country to land a vehicle close to the Moon's largely unexplored south pole.

        The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the launch of Aditya-L1, the country's first observatory to study the Sun from orbit, is planned for September 2.

           In order to give the spacecraft a constant, unobstructed view of the Sun, Aditya, which means "sun" in Hindi, will be launched into a halo orbit in a region of space roughly 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth.

            The ability to watch the solar activity and how it affects the space weather in real-time would be improved, according to ISRO.

        The spacecraft will be carrying seven payloads, including detectors for electromagnetic and particle fields, to study the Sun's photosphere and chromosphere.

        Its study of the root cause of space weather will aim to, among other things, comprehend the dynamics of solar wind.

        While orbiters have been placed by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) in the past to study the Sun, this will be India's first mission of its kind.

          India became the fourth nation, after the United States, Russia, and China, to successfully land on the Moon last week with the unmanned Chandrayaan-3, or "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit.

      That represented the most recent accomplishment in India's ambitious yet inexpensive space program, which sparked joyous celebrations throughout the most populous nation on Earth.

       India's space program is relatively low-budget, but it has expanded significantly in scope and velocity since it sent its first probe into lunar orbit in 2008.

          According to experts, India can keep costs down by cloning and adapting current technologies and because it has a large pool of highly trained engineers that make a fraction of what their overseas counterparts do in terms of pay.

          India became the first Asian country to launch a vehicle into Mars orbit in 2014, and by next year, it is planned to launch a three-day crewed trip into the Earth's orbit.

        It also has plans to send a second probe to the Moon in collaboration with Japan by 2025, as well as an orbital mission to Venus in the following two years.

Here are some additional details about India's space program:

• India's space program is known for its low-cost, high-quality missions.
• India has made significant progress in space exploration in recent years, including landing a spacecraft on the Moon and sending a probe to Mars.
• India is planning to send astronauts to space in the near future.
• India's space program is a source of pride for many Indians, and it is seen as a symbol of the country's technological prowess.