ANI | PTI Copy Edited By Sangeeta Das
The Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO began the New Year in style and with success as the agency smoothly launched its inaugural X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite at the scheduled time of 9:10 am on Monday.
The mission is set to furnish valuable insights into celestial entities such as black holes and the polarization of strong X-ray sources in the infinity of space.
Hailing the successful launch and the personal intervention and patronage from PM Narendra Modi, Union Science Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh expressed pride for being associated with the Space Department “at a time when Team ISRO continues to accomplish one success after the other”.
WATCH the video of launch here:
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SEE the ISRO X Post here:
https://x.com/isro/status/1741709142967070725?s=20
On December 31, the 25-hour countdown commenced and follows the fruitful completion of the Gaganyaan Test Vehicle D1 mission in October.
ISRO stated, “The POEM-3 is being scripted” as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV and C58 rocket, marking its 60th mission, precisely positioned the primary X-Ray Polarimeter satellite or XPoSat in a 650 km Low Earth Orbit.
The XPoSat’s anticipated mission life is approximately five years and its principal payload is POLIX or Polarimeter Instrument in X-Rays, developed by the Raman Research Institute that will calculate polarimetry parameters.
Its other pivotal component is X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing or XSPECT that is designed by the UR Rao Satellite Centre in Karnataka’s Bengaluru.
After the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon’s South Pole on August 23, Bharat has set big ambitions like the Gaganyaan Mission, the Bharatiya Antariksha Station’s establishment by 2035 and sending of the first Indian to the Moon by 2040.
ISRO Chief S Somnath’s Remark On Successful Launch
- Yet another successful mission of PSLV has been accomplished on 1, January 2024.
- Aditya-L1 will reach Lagrange Point at 4 pm on January 6.
- Within the time period of just 12 months in 2024, ISRO is getting ready for minimum 12 to 14 missions.
- Target may exceed depending upon the ability to produce hardware, finish the testing successfully.
- The Chandrayaan 3 was a great success that gave ample amount of confidence to ISRO and the team to work on the programmes.
- Currently, it is sleeping well after 14 days of its contribution to data gathering. Subsequently, I advise the IT team not to wake it up again. Unfortunately, it’s sleeping forever and irrespective of that we were hoping it would wake up through its ability.
- Multiple things could have gone wrong. Only after communication between Pragyaan and Vikram is established it will be known if Pragyan Rover woke up.
- ISRO is hopeful a fantastic scientific outcome from the data gathered during the period of 14 days as the scientists are working on it.
