NEW DELHI: Isro on Saturday evening announced that Aditya L1 spacecraft has “travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from the Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence”.Even as the Isro is keeping a close watch on the movement of Aditya L1 to its destination point ‘L1’, it is simultaneously making preparations in full gear for its Venus mission ‘Shukrayaan’,...
BENGALURU: India’s first solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, early Tuesday began its 110-day-long journey to L1, about 1.5-million-km from Earth, with Isro completing the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TLI) flawlessly.The L1 refers to Lagrange Point-1 of the Sun-Earth system. It is a location in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, are in...
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