India's 1st mission to study the sun launches Sept. 2

India is gearing up for its first-ever mission to study the sun.

The mission's observatory, called Aditya-L1 ("Aditya" means "sun" in Sanskrit), has arrived at its launch site on the island of Sriharikota, on India's east coast, and is due to launch on Sept. 2, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's national space agency.

The ISRO announced the planned launch date on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Aug. 28, several weeks after sharing the first pictures of the spacecraft on Aug. 13.