top of page
Search

brighter than the sun

  • Writer: S Plant
    S Plant
  • Sep 3, 2023
  • 1 min read

Yesterday a ship called Aditya was launched from Sriharikota in India. It shares its name with a Sanskrit name for a god of the sun, which is, apparently, its destination.

The message: Elon Musk is not the only one dreaming of missions to space, to the stars, to other planets, Venus and Mars. The Global South is moving on.

The small print: Aditya's destination is a point 1.5 million kilometres away from the earth, which is 1% of the distance to the sun.

 
 

Recent Posts

See All
after us, after use

I called this blog "after use" because it is an anagram of features, the name of the Kunsthalle Vermittlung series. Now I see it serves...

 
 
fluid things

Unlike the earth, as far as we know, our star, the sun, is not a solid thing. It too has poles, and they swap quite often - every 11...

 
 
pole positions

“All these thoughts about the poles make my head spin.” So writes one contributor, who has watched the video based on one of the NTU...

 
 
bottom of page