ISRO XPoSat Mission: India is going to start the new year once again with creating a new history. After Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L1, now the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is ready to launch the first X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) on Monday (January 1). The New Year will be welcomed with this launching which will unveil the mysteries of astronomical creations like black holes. It will be launched on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket at 9.10 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
This launch is being done after the success of Gaganyaan test vehicle ‘D1 Mission’ in October. The lifespan of this mission will be about 5 years. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C58 rocket, on its 60th mission, will carry the key payload ‘EXPOSAT’ and 10 other satellites which will be placed in low Earth orbits.
The curtain will rise from the mysterious world
The 25-hour countdown for the launch to be held at 9.10 am on the first day of the New Year from the space center located about 135 km east of Chennai started on Sunday (31 December). ISRO sources said, “The countdown for PSLV-C58 started at 8.10 am today.”
The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (EXPOSAT) will help unravel the mysteries of the X-ray source and study the mysterious world of ‘black holes’. According to ISRO, it is the space agency’s first dedicated scientific satellite to study X-ray emissions from astronomical sources in space-based polarization measurements.
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The launch of the X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is set for January 1, 2024, at 09:10 Hrs. IST from the first launch-pad, SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota.https://t.co/gWMWX8N6IvThe launch can be viewed LIVE
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America’s space agency NASA also did such a study
Apart from the Indian space agency ISRO, the US space agency NASA had conducted a similar study in December 2021 on the remains of supernova explosion, streams of particles emanating from black holes and other astronomical phenomena. ISRO said that space-based study of X-ray polarization is becoming internationally important and the EXPOSACT mission will play an important role in this context.
‘ExpoSat Mission’ ready to break the limitations of current theoretical models
The space agency said the XPoSat mission is set to break the limitations of current theoretical models by combining polarimetric observations and spectroscopic measurements. By doing so, researchers are likely to overcome challenges posed by the complex physical processes that govern the emission mechanisms of celestial bodies.
Polix developed in collaboration with U R Rao Satellite Center
Developed by the Ramam Research Institute (RRI) in Bangalore in collaboration with the U R Rao Satellite Center (URSC), POLIX is an X-ray polarimeter designed for use in the 8-30 keV energy band, HT reports. It has been designed for astronomical observations. The instrument consists of a collimator, a scatterer, and four X-ray proportional counter detectors that surround the scatterer.
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,With PTI-language inputs,