Space Weather Watch — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aditya-L1 extends India's space science portfolio beyond planetary missions into heliophysics — joining a small set of nations operating dedicated solar observatories at strategic vantage points. The mission supports India's disaster preparedness infrastructure by improving forecasts of solar storms that can disrupt communications, navigation, and electrical grids. SDO's public data policy turned solar physics into shareable culture — flare movies, eclipse transits, and prominence loops that circulate on social media and in planetarium shows worldwide. The mission arrived as the Space Shuttle programme approached retirement, symbolising NASA's pivot toward long-duration robotic observatories in geosynchronous orbit.