Aditya-L1 will be launched in PSLV’s 59th flight. The PSLV, in its XL configuration, will place the spacecraft in a highly eccentric Earth-bound orbit, from where, the spacecraft will perform multiple orbital manoeuvres by using its liquid apogee motors (LAM) — powerful engines that will play a critical role in taking it to its destination — to reach the Lagrange Point-1 (L1) about 1.5-million-km away. That is 1/100th of the distance between Earth and Sun.