{"id":17497,"date":"2025-12-06T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:43:22","slug":"astrosat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/astrosat\/","title":{"rendered":"AstroSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AstroSat Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) celebrated a decade of successful operation of the UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on AstroSat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About AstroSat<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first <\/span><b>dedicated Indian astronomy mission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aimed at studying <\/span><b>celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The payloads cover the energy bands of <\/span><b>Ultraviolet (<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Near and Far), <\/span><b>limited optical and X-ray regime<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (0.3 keV to 100keV).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It enables the simultaneous <\/span><b>multi-wavelength observations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of various astronomical objects with a single satellite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Payloads of Astrosat:<\/b> <b>Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (UVIT), Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC), Cadmium\u2013Zinc\u2013Telluride Imager (CZTI), Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>UVIT consists of two telescopes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one dedicated to near-ultraviolet and visible wavelengths, and the other to far-ultraviolet observations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spacecraft control centre at Mission Operations Complex (MOX) of <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/isro\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISRO<\/a> Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Bengaluru manages the satellite during its entire mission life.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Objectives of AstroSat<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand <\/span><b>high energy processes in binary star systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> containing neutron stars and black holes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Estimate <\/span><b>magnetic fields of neutron stars<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Study star birth regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and high energy processes in star systems lying beyond our galaxy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Detect new briefly bright X-ray sources in the sky.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Perform a <\/span><b>limited deep field survey<\/b> <b>of the Universe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Ultraviolet region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/iia-marks-10-years-of-uvit-operations-on-astrosat-showcasing-indias-uv-astronomy-advancements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously. 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