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In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface.

Aditya-L1 spacecraft which was lifted successfully to study the Sun made its first earth-bound manoeuvre on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News:

Avoid shopping or important decisions from 6:30 to 10:15 a.m. After that, the moon moves from Aries into Taurus.

India’s space mission says the moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole

Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday said that the first earth-bound firing to raise the Aditya-L1 orbit is scheduled for September 3 around 11:45 hours. Read further on Dynamite News:

With more countries landing on the Moon, people back on Earth will have to think about what happens to all the landers, waste and miscellaneous debris left on the lunar surface and in orbit

India launched its maiden expedition to the Sun just days after landing a spacecraft on the Moon to mark the South Asian power’s rapid ascend as a space-faring nation.

India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, a week after the country’s successful unmanned moon landing.

About 63 minutes after take-off, the separation from the satellite took place with the PSLV launching the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in a highly eccentric orbit around Earth at 12.53 p.m.