India’s Aditya-L1 will add to information gathered on other missions designed to study the sun, including NASA’s ongoing Parker Solar Probe that in 2021 became the first spacecraft to “touch ...

India launched Aditya-L1, its first space mission to study the sun, from Sriharikota. The spacecraft will travel to Lagrange point 1 between the sun and Earth.

The Aditya-L1 mission will “take India to the forefront of solar space observation” and supply unprecedented data to scientists around the world, says Helen Mason at the University of Cambridge.