India’s sun-monitoring spacecraft has reached a significant milestone on its voyage to break free from “the sphere of Earth’s influence,” according to its space agency.

This achievement comes shortly after the disappointment of the moon rover’s failure to reactivate.

The Aditya-L1 mission, which embarked on its four-month journey toward the heart of the solar system on September 2, is equipped with instruments designed to observe the outermost layers of the sun, Phys.Org reported.

In a statement released late Saturday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) declared, “The spacecraft has escaped the sphere of Earth’s influence,”

Aditya, named after the Hindu sun deity, has covered a distance of 920,000 kilometers (approximately 570,000 miles), which represents just over half of the total distance for its journey.

At this juncture, the gravitational forces exerted by both celestial bodies balance out, enabling the mission to maintain a stable halo orbit around our nearest star.

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