GROWTH-India Telescope Recently GROWTH-India Telescope captured a 116-meter, building-sized asteroid during its closest approach to The telescope was launched under GROWTH-India Project. GROWTH stands for Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients About GROWTH-India Telescope: It is India's first fully robotic optical research telescope Objective – To observe explosive transients and variable sources, including near-Earth asteroids. It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh.