ASTROSAT News

ISRO Chairman, Dr K Sivan said that the study of the universe played a major role in defining research of ISRO and AstroSat has brought us into the big league of space astronomy and provided excellent results. He added that the satellite had served its mission life of five years, with all five on-board equipment in ‘very fine’ condition and that it would continue to serve for years to come. Referring to AstroSat as a multi-agency mission, Dr Sivan elaborated that academia and R&D institutions had worked in the engineering and testing phase of this project.

NASA hailed the discovery by Indian astronomers as an effort that will further enable humankind`s understanding. India`s AstroSat/UVIT was able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise is much less than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The galaxy called AUDFs01 was discovered by a team of Astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics(IUCAA) Pune. India's AstroSat/UVIT was reportedly able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise in the UVIT detector is much less than one on the Hubble Space Telescope of US-based NASA.

AstroSat accomplished the 18-month-long task of measuring X-ray polarisation of Crab pulsar in the Taurus constellation for the first time.

Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have simultaneously detected a massive coronal explosion on the nearest planet-hosting star 'Proxima Centauri', a top scientist revealed here on Wednesday.

In the last two years, ISRO has launched around six satellites building India's might in space.

Take a look at some of the major Indian space missions this year.

The SSM was pointed to GRS 1915+105, an X-ray binary star system which features a regular star and a black hole, and caught it exhibiting the ‘beta’ class of variability on 14 October 2015.

ISRO tweeted the enthralling blue picture of the Nebula on its official Twitter page.

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 President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on the successful launch of ASTROSAT, India's dedicated space observatory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led a host of chief ministers from across the nation in praising ISRO for its successful launch of ASTROSAT.

Envisaging a more active participation from domestic industry in India's space programme, ISRO Monday said it looked forward to industry built and assembled launch vehicles in three to four years.

 India has signed up contracts to launch 23 foreign satellites soon, an official of Antrix Corporation said here on Monday.

Taking another step forward in the country's rapidly growing space programme, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched its Astrosat, India's first space observatory into the orbit.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched its first space observatory 'Astrosat' into the orbit.

 The countdown for the launch of Indian rocket carrying ASTROSAT, India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory that will help in understanding the universe, and six other foreign satellites was progressing smoothly on Sunday, a senior official of the Indian space agency ISRO said.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch the Indian rocket carrying seven satellites including India's ASTROSAT on 28 September, 2015.