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ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, announced on Thursday that a payload on its recently-launched mission has successfully captured its first light from a celestial source. The XSPECT payload, which is part of India s first X-ray polarimetric mission called XPoSat, captured its first light from the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant. ....
Launched on January 1, XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT), aimed at unravelling the mysteries of cosmic X-ray sources. ....