XPoSat
Sign in to savethumb|XPoSat being tested on Earth The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is an ISRO-manufactured space observatory to study polarisation of cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, and it has an expected operational lifespan of at least five years.
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15 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Launch
- First Light
- XSPECT
- POLIX
- Science
- Solar observations
- Astronomical observations
- Release of Data
- Payloads
- Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX)
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing (XSPECT)
- See also
- References
thumb|XPoSat being tested on Earth The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is an ISRO-manufactured space observatory to study polarisation of cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, and it has an expected operational lifespan of at least five years.
The telescope was developed by the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in close collaboration with the U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC). Per ISRO, this mission will complement the efforts of US space agency NASA, which launched its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in 2021 by observing space events across a broad energy range of 2–30 keV.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “XPoSat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.