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- Astrosat, India’s maiden space-based observatory, has completed six years of successful operations.
About AstroSat
- It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2015
- It is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously.
- The payloads cover the energy bands of Ultraviolet (Near and Far), limited optical and X-ray regimes (0.3 keV to 100keV).
- The minimum useful life of the AstroSat mission is expected to be 5 years.
- The scientific objectives of AstroSat mission are:
- To understand high energy processes in binary star systems containing neutron stars and black holes
- Estimate magnetic fields of neutron stars
- Study star birth regions and high energy processes in star systems lying beyond our galaxy
- Detect new briefly bright X-ray sources in the sky
- Perform a limited deep field survey of the Universe in the Ultraviolet region.
Source: IE
