Payloads for X-ray Astronomy

                                           launched on

                           Indian Rockets -- Centaur and Rohini

• October 1976 :  X-ray Payload for Centaur-300 at Thumba (TERLS)

• October 27, 1976 :  Payload mounted inside the nosecone of the Centaur-300 being transported to the launch-pad at Thumba (TERLS)

• October 27, 1976 :  Centaur-300 (C-34) ready for launch at Thumba (TERLS)

• 1979 :  Multi-wire proportional counter launched on Rohini-560 from Sriharikota (SHAR) on June 24, 1979

• June 24, 1979 :  Back-to-back thin-window gas-flow proportional counters, launched on Rohini-560, Sriharikota (SHAR)

• July 1982 :  Team and payload for Rohini 560 after qualification at Thumba (TERLS)

 Details are  in  a  paper  entitled :   "A Large Area Gas-flow Proportional Counter System for Soft X-ray Astronomy"
 and published  in Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics,  1980, Vol. 9,  201-208

 For results obtained from these experiments see

  K. P. Singh
  May 11, 1999