Tag: Spacecraft milestone

Aditya-L1 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), says an update on the Aditya-L1 mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).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 said in X (Twitter).ISRO, on September 2, launched its Aditya-L1 mission to...