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AGILE - Gamma Ray Light Detector - Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero |
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AGILE is in orbit
AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) Scientific small mission based on a MITA class enhanced platform. It’s the only European mission entirely devoted to high-energy astrophysics studies. It’s a gamma ray and hard x-ray observatory to survey the celestial sphere and to identify the Gamma Ray bursts and unidentified sources, galactic sources, diffuse galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray emissions. It could help understand some astrophysics phenomena like explosions, compact stars, massive black holes and gamma-rays energetic bursts reaching the Earth from remote regions of the Universe. Its detector is made by a team of Italian scientists but the exploitation will be opened to international scientific community.
CGS provides the platform as Prime Contractor and is responsible of a network of companies developing the overall mission, ground segment, launch & operations for ASI. The satellite has been launched by a PSLV rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Latest News
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