India is planning to orbit a solar x-ray device next year as part of its long-term scheme to study many of the unexplored properties of the sun. The solar x-ray spectrometer now being jointly developed by the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory and the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research will form a part of the payload on board the G-Sat-2 experimental communications spacecraft that the Indian Space Research Organisation intends to put into orbit by means of a three-stage 400t geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle to be launched from Sriharikota launch complex next year.
Source: Flight International
