ISRO’s XPoSat Mission Successfully Launches New Satellite into Orbit

XPoSat mission launch: In another proud moment created by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), a new satellite was successfully launched into orbit. Dubbed the XPoSat mission, the project was successfully launched today on the first day of 2024. And while ISRO ended 2023 with a number of successes, the most prominent being the Chandrayaan-3 mission and the Aditya-L1 mission, the agency’s space mission registered another historic victory with the launch this very important satellite. The satellite was launched into orbit using a PSLV-C58 rocket. According to ISRO, the planned mission life of XPoSat is about 5 years. Among many other goals, it will also study X-ray pulsars, black hole binaries, neutron stars, and magnetars.

The launch comes after a grueling 25-hour countdown that began at 8:10 a.m. Sunday. ISRO has scheduled the launch on January 1 at 09:10 from the first pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, about 135 km east of Chennai.

Importantly, this is the 60th mission of the PSLV-C58 rocket. There are as many as 10 other satellites on board that will be deployed into low Earth orbit.

The spacecraft carried two scientific payloads:

1.POLICE: This is an X-ray polarimeter for astronomical observations in the energy range 8-30 keV. The instrument consists of a collimator, a scatterer, and four proportional X-ray counters surrounding the scatterer. This is the first charge in the midband X-ray energy band intended for polarimetric measurements.

2. XSPECT: It is the X-ray SPECtroscopy and synchronization payload on XPoSat that can provide fast synchronization and good spectroscopic resolution in soft X-rays. XSPECT will observe several types of sources, namely X-ray pulsars, black hole binaries, low magnetic field (NS) neutron stars in LMXB, AGN, and magnetars.

2024-01-01 04:39:34
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