BENGALURU, October 18 — The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) officially inaugurated the advanced high-throughput mirror facility of the Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) at Byalalu, Karnataka on Sunday.
Equipped with multi-petabyte high-performance compute clusters and distributed disaster-recovery data mirroring, the facility is engineered to ingest, curate, and archive scientific datasets beamed back from premier planetary and astronomy missions, including Chandrayaan-3, the Aditya-L1 solar observatory, AstroSat, and the XPoSat polarimeter mission. The infrastructure provides open digital access for academic researchers globally.
ISRO officials affirmed that the facility democratizes high-resolution cosmic and solar telemetry, facilitating automated data pipelines for university astrophysics departments to conduct deep-sky explorations and process raw spectral readings without data download latency.
The operational role of ISSDC and the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN operating 18m and 32m deep-space tracking dish arrays at Byalalu), the legacy of AstroSat (India’s first multi-wavelength space observatory launched in 2015), and National Geospatial Policy 2022 guidelines represent high-frequency themes across UPSC GS-III Science & Tech.