{"id":52092,"date":"2024-01-03T01:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-launches-astronomy-satellite-in-new-year-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:29:21","slug":"isro-launches-astronomy-satellite-in-new-year-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-launches-astronomy-satellite-in-new-year-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Launches Astronomy Satellite in New Year Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The<b> Indian Space Research Organisation<\/b> (ISRO) launched an astronomy satellite on a PSLV mission on Jan. 1. The PSLV-C58 mission launched the XPoSat \u2014 X-ray polarimeter satellite \u2014 into Eastward low inclination orbit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>XPoSat&nbsp; is the first dedicated scientific satellite from ISRO to research space-based polarization measurements of X-ray emission from celestial sources. The satellite has two payloads: POLIX (Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays) and XSPECT (X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing). POLIX was built by the Raman Research Institute and XSPECT was built by the Space Astronomy Group of URSC.<\/p>\n<p>After the mission, ISRO confirmed XPoSat\u2019s health was normal. This mission was the 60th PSLV rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi applauded the launch: \u201cA great start to 2024 thanks to our scientists. This launch is wonderful news for the space sector and will enhance India\u2019s prowess in this field.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched an astronomy satellite on a PSLV mission on Jan. 1. The PSLV-C58 mission launched the XPoSat \u2014 X-ray polarimeter satellite \u2014 into Eastward low inclination orbit.&nbsp; XPoSat&nbsp; is the first dedicated scientific satellite from ISRO to research space-based polarization measurements of X-ray emission from celestial sources. The satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}