The Aditya-L1 spacecraft lifting off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the space centre in Sriharikota, India, on September 2nd, 2023. Photograph: Indian Space Research Organisation via AP India has launched its first space mission to study the sun, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 930,000 miles from Earth, known as L1. The spacecraft is equipped with seven…