Aditya-L1 Mission Update: The Aditya-L1 spacecraft has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence and is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), informed ISRO in a post on ‘X’.
“This is the second time in succession that ISRO could send a spacecraft outside the sphere of influence of the Earth, the first time being the Mars Orbiter Mission,” ISRO added.
Aditya-L1 Mission:
?The spacecraft has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence. It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
?This is the second time in succession that…
— ISRO (@isro) September 30, 2023