Chennai, Oct. 14 -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) organised a National Meet on XPoSat mission and released the scientific data from the mission to the scientific community.
XPoSat is India's space-based X-Ray astronomy observatory in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of around 650 km altitude and 6 degrees of inclination.
It carried two scientific payloads, viz. POLIX, aimed at measuring the degree and angle of polarization in medium X-ray energy rangeof 8-30 keV, and XSPECT, which will provide spectroscopic information in the energy range of 0.8-15 keV.
The POLIX payload is developed by Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru in close coordination with ISRO, while the XSPECT payload is developed by U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), ISR...