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India to Launch Astrosat in 2015

: Mar 4, 2014 - : 12:32 pm

 
India is making headway to launch Astrosat, the country's first satellite devoted to astronomy that will look at the universe in x-ray, ultraviolet and visible light bands, a senior space scientist says.
 
Astrosat, the multi wave length observatory in space, will be launched with six instruments aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says.
 
“It is getting ready now,” Radhakrishnan informs. “It will be integrated by 2015.”
 
The six pieces of equipment that will be used on board Astrosat are built by the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics based in Bengaluru.
 
The data which the six instruments will supply will help scientists in having a better understanding of the ways of the cosmos and thereby give a great contribution from India to the study of astronomy.
 
“Studying the skies too will be taken up with Astrosat,” Radhakrishnan adds.
 
The idea about having a satellite for astronomy first began in the late 1990s. The success of the Indian X-Ray Astronomy Experiment, an instrument carried on a remote sensing satellite launched in 1996, gave an impetus to a more ambitious effort.
 
In 2004, the government cleared the Astrosat project with a proposal to launch the satellite in about four years. Its launch, however, has been delayed by nearly six years.
 
India already has satellites to study weather, environment and water security and to help in communication. In April 2012, RISAT I, first indigenously built all-weather, radar-imaging satellite was launched, opening up access to the microwave remote sensing system.
 
This year, in April, ISRO is hoping to conduct a trial-lift of the heaviest variant of its GSLV, the Mk. 3, and the rocket will carry the human crew module into space to check if the module is capable of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere safely.
 
“We are moving towards enhanced launch capability through the GSLV Mk. 3 and even higher powered launch vehicles in the years to come,” ISRO chief Radhakrishnan says.
 

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