Aditya L1 - out of earth influence
October 13 , 2023
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- 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.
- It is now navigating its path towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
- L1 is about 1.5 million km from the Earth.
- The distance of L1 from Earth is approximately 1% of the Earth-Sun distance.
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