(UPDATE) XICHANG, China — A French-Chinese satellite blasted off on Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant.
XICHANG, China — A French-Chinese satellite blasted off on Saturday on a hunt for the mightiest explosions in the universe, in a notable example of cooperation between a Western power and the Asian giant.Developed by engineers from both countries, the Space Variable Objects Monitor will seek out gamma-ray bursts, the light from which has traveled billions of light years to reach Earth.The 930-kilogram satellite carrying four instruments — two French, two Chinese — took off at around 3 p.m.
interested in gamma-ray bursts for their own sake, because they are very extreme cosmic explosions which allow us to better understand the death of certain stars,' said Frederic Daigne, an astrophysicist at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.'All of this data makes it possible to test the laws of physics with phenomena that are impossible to reproduce in the laboratory on Earth,' he added.
Satellite To Look For Gamma-Ray Bursts
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