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Newshour: NASA Launches Mission 'to Touch the Sun'

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NASA Launches Mission 'to Touch the Sun'

12/08/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, NASA Launches Mission 'to Touch the Sun'

The US space agency launches mission to send satellite closer to the Sun than any before

The US space agency launches mission to send satellite closer to the Sun than any before.

US space agency Nasa has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. The Parker Solar Probe rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Also in the programme: People in Mali are voting in a presidential election run-off; and tributes have been paid to the Nobel prize-winning author, V S Naipaul, who's died at the age of eighty-five. 

Picture: NASA's Parker Solar Probe launch Sunday. Credit: NASA.

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