October 1, 2023 8:57 AM

India’s Solar Mission Aditya L1 successfully escaped sphere of Earth’s influence: ISRO

India’s Solar Mission Aditya L1 successfully escaped the sphere of Earth’s influence on Saturday by travelling beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometers from Earth and is now navigating its path towards the Lagrange point L1 that is 1.5 million kms from Earth. In its post on microblogging site X, ISRO has informed that the spacecraft is now on a trajectory that will take the spacecraft to the Sun-Earth L1 point. After 110 days, the spacecraft will be injected into an orbit around L1 through a...