[At 5:33 am Sun., Once... Grin.] A Second Success, In As Many Weeks: India Launches A Solar Observing Craft -- Called Aditya-L1...

So. . . there will now be an Indian counterpart, watching the Sun (and NASA's Parker solar probe, flit about the near vicinity of our home star). Though to be clear, the Indian mission will observe from quite a distance away from Sol. . . in a largely stationary orbit, as compared to Parker's dynamic close ellipses. [The latter remains the fastest human made craft. . . ever.]

This must be quite gratifying, for the fine people of India -- and all her diaspora. We are going to keep tabs on this lil' one, to be certain:

. . .India launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying the sun, building on a month of historic successes for the country’s civil space efforts.

The spacecraft, called Aditya-L1, launched from Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal, at 11:50 a.m. Saturday local time (2:20 am ET). And it’s headed to a parking spot in orbit about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

The successful liftoff of Aditya-L1 comes less than two weeks after India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization, made history by landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the lunar surface. The achievement made India only the fourth nation in the world — and the second in the 21st century — to land a vehicle safely on the moon. . . .

We will keep you informed -- about this lithe copper clad beauty, indeed. Grinning, out. . . .

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