Aditya L1 mission: What will happen after spacecraft reaches destination on January 6?

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But what will happen when Aditya L1 will reach the Lagrange Point 1? Somanath said when the Aditya-L1 spacecraft reaches the L1 point, "we have to fire the engine once again so that it does not go further." "It will go to that (L1 between Sun and Earth) point, and once it reaches that point, it will rotate around it and will be trapped at L1," the ISRO chief was quoted by news agency PTI as saying. Even the ISRO mentions on its website that upon arrival at the L1 point, a maneuver wound bind Aditya-L1 to an orbit around L1 — a balanced gravitational location between the Earth and the Sun.

"The spacecraft is planned to be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth," the ISRO said. According to the ISRO, Aditya-L1 will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth, directed towards the Sun, which is about 1 per cent of the Earth-Sun distance.

ALSO READ: Aditya-L1's SUIT takes first-ever full-disk representations of Sun | See pics "The strategic placement at the L1 Lagrange point ensures that Aditya-L1 can maintain a constant, uninterrupted view of the Sun," the ISRO said. Aditya-L1 has already performed a "Trans-Lagrangian1 insertion manoeuvre", which marked the beginning of its 110-day trajectory to the destination around the L1 Lagrange point.

"Once it is successfully placed on L1 point, it will be there for the next five years, gathering all the data which are very important not for India alone but for the entire world," Somanath said. The Sun is a giant sphere of gas and Aditya-L1 would study the outer atmosphere of the Sun.

"Aditya-L1 will neither land on the Sun nor approach the Sun any closer," the Indian space agency added. The