From the Moon to the Sun: India readies next space mission

India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon. The United States and the European Space Agency (ESA) have sent numerous probes to the centre of the solar system, beginning with Nasa's Pioneer programme in the 1960s.

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