A presentation was made by ISRO describing this project :
http://www.astro.phy.ulaval.ca/UVIT2007/presentations/VKRao.pdf
The spacecraft weigh 1.5 tons (780kg are payloads) launched by a PSLV
to an altitude of 650km in May, 2009.
Science payload includes :
1) Large Area Xenon Pro****tional Counter
2) UV Imaging Telescope
3) Soft X-Ray Telescope
4) Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager
5) Charged Particle Monitor
and other stuff.
International astronomers will be given a chance to observe targets of
interest in space 1 year after the craft is in orbit on a "competitive
basis" (you have to fight each other in a ring man to man).
