Astrosat satellite launch countdown on

September 27, 2015 20:28

PSLV-C30 carrying India's Astrosat satellite to be launched on September 28 from Sriharikota, countdown begins.

If the mission succeeds, ISRO will become the fourth space agency to have such frontline capabilities.

AstroSat comes in the wake of the highly-successful Mangalyaan mission, which made global history just a year ago when India became the first country to reach the Red Planet on its debut attempt. The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, and AstroSat are comparable in both being low-cost missions with limited scientific capabilities.

The Astrosat has cost Rs 178 crore to make and has been made ready in ten years though it was conceived more than 20 years ago.

ISRO asserts that "India will be the only country having a multi-wavelength space-based observatory capable of monitoring intensity variations in a broad range of cosmic sources".

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