Rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organisations ISRO website showed . The launch follows India beating Russia late last month to become the first country to land on the south pole of the moon .
The AdityaL spacecraft is designed to travel about . million km miles over four months to a kind of . parking lot in space where objects tend to stay put because of balancing gravitational forces reducing fuel consumption for the spacecraft . The mission has the capacity to make a big bang in terms of science said Somak Raychaudhury who was involved in the development of some components of the .
observatory adding that energy particles emitted by the sun can . hit satellites that control communications on Earth . Longer term data from the mission could help better understand the suns impact on the . solar wind the stream of particles that flow from the sun through the solar system ISRO scientists have said.
There have been episodes when major communications have gone down because a satellite has been hit by a big corona emission . The low earth orbit has been heavily polluted due to private participation so understanding how to safeguard satellites there will have special importance in todays space environment will be special importance to the space environment said Rama Rao Nidamanuri head of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology .
Pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi India is looking to open the sector to foreign investment . India has privatised space launches and is aiming to open its sector to international investors . The country is also hoping to open itself to foreign investors in the space sector .
The space industry . to be a very important project to be the main focus of the commercial space launches. Satellites in low earth orbital space launches .
