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Updated: Oct 01, 2023 02:30 IST

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 1 (ANI): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday knowledgeable that the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has efficiently escaped the sphere of Earth’s affect including that it’s now navigating its path in direction of the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
Taking to X (former Twitter), ISRO stated, “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 additional said that it’s the second time in succession that the area company might ship a spacecraft exterior the sphere of affect of the Earth with the primary time being the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan). 

The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter lifted off efficiently from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on September 2.
The profitable launch of the maiden solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) got here on the heels of the historic lunar touchdown mission — Chandrayaan-3.
According to the company, the Aditya-L1 mission is anticipated to achieve the statement level in 4 months. It will probably be positioned in a halo orbit round Lagrangian Point 1 (or L1), which is 1.5 million km away from the Earth within the course of the solar.
It will carry seven completely different payloads to have an in depth examine of the solar, 4 of which is able to observe the sunshine from the solar and the opposite three will measure in-situ parameters of the plasma and magnetic fields.
Major targets of India’s solar mission embrace the examine of the physics of photo voltaic corona and its heating mechanism, the photo voltaic wind acceleration, coupling and dynamics of the photo voltaic environment, photo voltaic wind distribution and temperature anisotropy, and origin of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and flares and near-earth area climate. (ANI)