Indian engineers team in UK to work on 'Astrosat'
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[February 04, 2009]

Indian engineers team in UK to work on 'Astrosat'

London, Feb 04, 2009 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) --
India's first national astronomy satellite 'Astrosat' will have its key components assembled in the UK under a collaboration between engineers from a leading Indian institute and the British University of Leicester.

A team of engineers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai, has arrived at the Leicester University's Space Research Centre to monitor the progress of work on the satellite, which is due for launch later this year.


The team, who will be in Leicester until Friday, will work on the next phase of the mission, when hardware manufactured in India arrives in Leicester for inspection, testing and assembly into a space qualified X-ray camera.

Guy Peters, Astrosat SXT Project Manager UK said: "In several months, when the camera has been assembled and the Leicester built detector assembly and control electronics installed, it will be tested to space qualified standards and shipped back to India for integration into the spacecraft." Sangam Sinha from the Tata Institute added: "Astrosat is critical to the Indian space programme as it is the first satellite entirely dedicated to the pursuit of science.

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