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5 years of ASTROSAT
October 2 , 2020
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- The ASTROSAT was the first multi-wavelength satellite launched by ISRO.
- It was launched on September 28, 2015.
- It has now completed five years of successful imaging of celestial objects.
- It explored stars, star clusters and mapped large and small galaxies of Milky Way galaxy called “Magellanic Clouds”.
- ASTROSAT was the first dedicated Indian Mission that studied celestial sources in X-ray, UV and optical spectral bands simultaneously.
- The resolution of ASTROSAT is three times better than the resolution of NASA Mission, GALEX.
- With the success of ASTROSAT, India has become one of the exclusive club of nations to have space-based observatories.
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