The Aditya-L1 space craft which is headed to the Lagrangian 1 (L1) point has escaped the sphere of Earth’s influence. Aditya-L1 is India’s first space based observatory to study the Sun.”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),” ISRO said on Saturday.
The space agency added that 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.On September 19, ISRO carried out the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre to send it towards L1. The TL1I manoeuvre marked the beginning of Aditya-L1’s 110-day journey towards the L1 point which lies between the Sun-Earth line.
