31 March 2016
JAXA Director of ISC Says Hitomi Recovery May Be Possible
... out the state of its health. Hitomi, an x-ray astronomy satellite, was launched on February 17th and was in the ...month testing and instrument calibration period, when contact with the satellite was lost on March 26. According to Fujimoto, “During its...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... unexplored electromagnetic window on the Universe. e-ASTROGAM will bridge the gap between the current generation of hard X-ray satellites - like NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, SWIFT, Chandra, RXTE, XMM-Newton - and NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope, making...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... most powerful telescopic mirrors ever, and cameras that can see much more than any previous x-ray satellite. There are many other cases where technology originally developed for space exploration has been put...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
...aim of developing the emerging field of gravitational wave science. Gamma ray bursts (GRBs), which come in two flavours – long and... with GRBs detected by the Fermi and Swift gamma-ray satellites, that shows no connection between the two could be...
