On Saturday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that the Aditya-L1 spacecraft has achieved a successful departure from Earth's gravitational influence and is currently following its trajectory toward Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1).

ISRO made this announcement on X (formerly Twitter), stating, "The spacecraft has now traveled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometers from Earth, successfully breaking free from Earth's gravitational pull. It is now on its course toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1)."

ISRO also noted that this marks the second consecutive instance where the space agency has successfully sent a spacecraft beyond Earth's gravitational sphere, with the first being the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan).

The Aditya-L1 orbiter was launched successfully aboard the PSLV-C57.1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on September 2.

The achievement of launching India's maiden solar mission follows closely on the heels of the historic lunar landing mission, Chandrayaan-3.

According to ISRO, the Aditya-L1 mission is expected to reach its observational destination in approximately four months. It will be placed in a halo orbit around Lagrangian Point 1 (L1), situated 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth in the direction of the Sun.

The spacecraft is equipped with seven different payloads designed for an extensive study of the Sun. Four of these payloads will observe the Sun's light, while the remaining three will measure in-situ parameters related to plasma and magnetic fields.

The primary objectives of India's solar mission encompass research into the physics of the solar corona and its heating mechanisms, the acceleration of solar wind, the coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, the distribution and temperature anisotropy of solar wind, and the origins of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and solar flares, as well as their impact on near-Earth space weather.