Planned: 5 years Elapsed : 8 years, 7 months, 25 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
AstroSat
Launch mass
1,513 kg (3,336 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)[1][2]
Rocket
PSLV-C30
Launch site
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad
Contractor
ISRO
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Near-equatorial
Semi-major axis
7020 km
Perigee altitude
643.5 km
Apogee altitude
654.9 km
Inclination
6.0°
Period
97.6 min
Main
Wavelengths
Far Ultraviolet to hard X-ray
Instruments
UVIT SXT LAXPC CZTI SSM CPM
AstroSat-2 →
AstroSat is India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope. It was launched on a PSLV-XL on 28 September 2015.[1][2] With the success of this satellite, ISRO has proposed launching AstroSat-2 as a successor for AstroSat.[3]
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^Isro plans to launch India's 2nd space observatory Times of India 19 February 2018
Astrosat, and directed by Sue Sudbury, was released. FUV Images of the NGC-1851 cluster Messier 74 captured by astrosat Spaceflight portal AstroSat-2...
deeper space missions to the other outer planets. AstroSat-2 AstroSat-2 is the successor to the AstroSat mission. Exoworlds Exoworlds is a joint proposal...
Multi Wavelength Space Observatory ASTROSAT – ISRO". isro.gov.in. Retrieved 13 March 2019. Agrawal, P. C. (2017). "AstroSat: From Inception to Realization...
such as the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) on AstroSat. XSPECT is the secondary payload on XPoSat. It measures spectroscopic information, timing of...
Multi Wavelength Space Observatory ASTROSAT". Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. "Isro's PSLV-C58 XPoSat mission successful; satellite set...
2017). "AstroSat rules out afterglow in black hole merger". The Hindu. "'Vampire' star caught in the act by Indian space observatory ASTROSAT". 30 January...
on 24 June 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010. "ISRO's dedicated site for the Astrosat mission". ISRO. Archived from the original on 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2015-09-28...
"Proxima Centauri - the nearest planet host observed simultaneously with AstroSat, Chandra, and HST". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society....
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away. The Indian satellite AstroSat uses intensifiers developed and built at Photek in Hastings between 2010 and 2013. AstroSat was launched in 2015, and...
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also to the general public. The facility has supported Chandrayaan-1, AstroSat, Youthsat, Mars Orbiter Mission, and Megha-tropiques and will be supporting...
reported, using the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) detector aboard the AstroSat space observatory, no hard X-ray transients were detected between 13–16...
July 2017. "Astrosat". Isro.gov.in. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017. "Technical details for satellite ASTROSAT". N2YO.com...
and CNES. EADS Astrium offers the Myriade bus under the commercial name Astrosat-100. CNES began developing Myriade in 1998, as a continuation of the Proteus...
mission, Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), India's first space observatory, Astrosat and India's first Solar mission, Aditya-L1. PSLV has gained credibility...
nationwide tabloid Šíp. In 2013 VLP bought Sanoma Magazines and merged it with Astrosat - the magazine subsidiary which is from 49% owned by German publisher Bertelsmann...
2037 Approved for development Solar Earth-trailing orbit (approx. 1 AU) AstroSat-2 ISRO Near Ultraviolet, Far Ultraviolet, Visible TBD – Low Earth orbit...
December 2023). "Spectral and temporal features of GX 13+1 as revealed by AstroSat". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527 (4): 11855–11865...
the same location. Astrosat Telescope astronomy India Completed India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope, Astrosat is a multi-wavelength...
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