BENGALURU, India ¨C Following quickly on the success of India¡¯s moon landing, the country¡¯s space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first such solar mission.
The rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped, a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organisation¡¯s (ISRO) website showed.
India¡¯s space agency on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, later said the satellite was now in orbit.
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