Aditya-L1, India's First Sun Study Mission, is Launched Aboard PSLV Rocket by ISRO

Following the triumph of India's moon landing, the country's space agency, ISRO, launched its first solar mission, Aditya-L1, on Saturday to study the sun.

A live feed on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) website showed the rocket leaving a trail of smoke and fire while scientists applauded. 

Nearly 500,000 people tuned in to watch the broadcast, and many more gathered at a viewing gallery near the launch site to see the probe's liftoff, which will try to investigate solar winds, which may generate disturbances on Earth known as auroras.

The Aditya-L1 launch, named after the Hindi word for sun, comes after India defeated Russia late last month to become the first country to land on the moon's south pole. While Russia had a more powerful rocket, India's Chandrayaan-3 outlasted the Luna-25 to land perfectly.

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is planned to travel 1.5 million kilometers in four months to a type of parking lot in orbit where things prefer to remain there due to balanced gravity pulls, lowering the spacecraft's fuel consumption.

Lagrange Points are named after the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange. 

According to Somak Raychaudhury, who was engaged in the building of some components of the observatory, the project has the potential to produce a "big bang in terms of science," adding that energetic particles generated by the sun can damage satellites that govern communications on Earth. 

"There have been instances when major communications have been disrupted due to a satellite being hit by a large corona emission." Satellites in low earth orbit are the primary focus of global commercial companies, making the Aditya L1 mission critical," he added. 

Scientists want to learn more about the effects of solar radiation on the hundreds of satellites in orbit, a number that is rising due to the success of projects like as Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starlink communications network.

"Because of private participation, low earth orbit has been heavily polluted, so understanding how to safeguard satellites there will be especially important in today's space environment," said Rama Rao Nidamanuri, head of the department of earth and space sciences at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology.

ISRO scientists believe that data from the project will help them better understand the sun's effect on Earth's climate patterns and the origins of solar wind, the stream of particles that flows from the sun across the solar system.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has privatized space launches and plans to open the industry to international investment as it seeks to more than fivefold its share of the global launch market over the next decade.

As space becomes a global industry, the government is counting on ISRO's success to demonstrate its capabilities in the field.