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Recently, India’s first dedicated Space Astronomy Observatory, AstroSat completed a decade of operations. 

About AstroSat

• It is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission.
• It was launched by PSLV-C30 (XL) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota  on September 28, 2015.
• The minimum useful life of the AstroSat mission was around 5 years but still it is providing valuable information.
• It was designed to observe the universe in the Visible, Ultraviolet, low and high energy X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum simultaneously with the help of its five payloads.
• Payloads of Astrosat: Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC), Cadmium–Zinc–Telluride Imager (CZTI), Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM).
• The spacecraft control center at Mission Operations Complex (MOX) of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bengaluru, manages the satellite during its entire mission life.

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Objectives of Astrosat

• 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: TH