India's Space Missions: From Moon to Sun, Exploring the Cosmos

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India's Space Missions: From Moon to Sun, Exploring the Cosmos
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India is preparing for its upcoming space missions, including the launch of the Aditya-L1 mission to study the sun's activities and their impact on space weather. The Gaganyaan program aims to send a crew of three to orbit for a three-day mission before landing in Indian waters. Additionally, India is collaborating with NASA on the NISAR satellite to map the planet and studying cosmic X-ray sources with the XPoSat mission. The article also highlights past missions, such as Chandrayaan-3's successful landing on the moon's south pole, Chandrayaan-2's orbiter success but lander crash, the Mars Orbiter Mission, and Chandrayaan-1's confirmation of water ice on the moon.

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