The Indian space agency ISRO launched a new satellite on Monday to study black holes. The launch aboard the launch vehicle from the Sriharikota spaceport was successful, ISRO Chairman Sreedhara Somanath said.
The production of the ‘X-ray Polarimeter’ satellite (XPoSat for short) with an expected lifespan of more than five years cost around 2.5 billion rupees (27 million euros), reported the Indian television channel NDTV. That is considerably less than the American space agency NASA spent on a satellite for a similar mission.
The launch comes after a hugely successful year for ISRO. In August 2023, their moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-3’ landed near the south pole of Earth’s satellite, an area no one had ever reached before. Monday’s launch is just one of the many projects ISRO has planned for 2024.
India has more ambitious space plans. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently said he wanted his country to send an astronaut to the moon for the first time by 2040 – and for an Indian space station to be there as early as 2035.
Source: Krone
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