ISRO announces opportunities to analyse AstroSat

February 22, 2023

Context:

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has made an announcement of opportunity (AO) to allow scientists and researchers to analyse data from the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission, AstroSat.

About AstroSat:

AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously.
It was launched in 2015 by ISRO into a near-Earth equatorial orbit.
It is a multi-institute collaborative project, involving IUCAA, ISRO, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Bengaluru), and Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad).
It has been studying Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB).

News Source: The Hindu

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