NASA launches small satellite, will reveal the secrets of cosmic explosions – see VIDEO
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Washington (Uttam Hindu News): NASA on Friday launched a small-sized satellite for the International Space Station (ISS). Its purpose is to uncover the secrets of cosmic explosions. The satellite BurstCube is en route to the orbiting lab on SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Replenishment Service mission. It lifted off at 4:55 pm local time on March 21 (Thursday) from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
After arriving at the ISS, BurstCube will be unpacked and later released into orbit, where it will detect and study brief gamma-ray bursts of high-energy light, NASA said.
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Liftoff! Our latest @SpaceX resupply mission to the @Space_Station blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 4:55pm ET (2055 UTC). pic.twitter.com/L90X8fSOsy
— NASA (@NASA) March 21, 2024
BurstCube could be small, said Jeremy Perkins, BurstCube’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US. But in addition to investigating these extreme events, it is also testing new technology and providing valuable experience for early career astronomers and aerospace engineers.
BurstCube can detect gamma rays with energies ranging from 50 thousand to 1 million electron volts. Current gamma-ray missions capture only about 70 percent of the sky. But more explosions can be detected by coincidence with gravitational wave detection with BurstCube.
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