Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel on Wednesday jointly remote activated Asia’s largest optical telescope, ARIES, located in India.
“ARIES project is not just a government-to-government initiative,” Modi said after the activation from Brussels. “It is a win-win collaboration between private sectors as well,” he said.
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He said even the sky was not the limit for the project.
Located at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) at Devasthal near Nainital, it is a 3.6-metre telescope.
India has collaborated with a Belgian company called AMOS to produce this infrared steerable optical telescope which is the first of its kind in the whole of Asia.
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