It seems like India's Indian Space Research Organisation is joining the club of top space exploring countries such as the US, China and few European countries. These years, the ISRO is planning and launching many projects like this for the space exploration and all. They've launched a Mars exploring orbiter named MOM (locally Mangalyaan) and are planning for an indigenous space capsule to carry man to space.
Now they are making another interesting one. They said that they are developing a mini version of the big Hubble Space Telescope of NASA/ESA. They also said that it will be called 'Astrosat'.
"Astrosat is nearly getting ready and it would be unique with three aspects — UV rays, visible and X rays. Even Hubble does not have this aspect. Though Hubble is big, Astrosat will be a small one." - Kiran Kumar, Director of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad
From this, we get that they are saying that this is something unique and/but smaller than Hubble. The optics of Astrosat will be just 300mm in diameter while the Hubble has a gigantic 2.4m diameter one. ISRO chairman said that this satellite will be launched sometime next year. They are also working on a satellite to study the Sun named 'Aditya' whose mission would be announced in three to four years from now.
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