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India to develop Sun mission named "Aditya"

Updated on Nov 11, 2008 09:49 pm IST

After the success of moon mission Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO plans a sun probe named 'Aditya', G. Madhavan Nair, ISRO chairman said on Monday. Nair also told reporters in Bangalore recently that the success of Chandrayaan-1 has made ISRO look beyond the moon. Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon successfully entered lunar orbit on Saturday.

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