The space telescope acquired never seen before details about blazars and about the origin of their emissions. IXPE is a NASA / ASI mission in which OHB Italia S.p.A., as unique industrial partner, developed fundamental parts of the satellite like the Detector Unit Electronics, the Filter and Calibration Wheel Mechanism…...
Il 13 luglio 2022 veniva rilasciato in orbita il satellite dell’ASI LARES2
Un anno fa, e per la precisione il 13 Luglio 2022 alle ore 14, 37 minuti, 14 secondi e 111 millisecondi (tempo misurato), veniva rilasciato in orbita il satellite dell’Agenzia Spaziale Italiane “LARES2”. Il decollo era avvenuto circa un’ora e mezza prima dal Centro Spaziale Guyanese di Kourou, a bordo…...
THE SPACE EXPLORER IXPE INTERCEPTS THE GIANT BLACK HOLE SAGITTARIUS A
IXPE (Imaging X Ray Polarimetry Explorer) is the satellite launched from Kennedy Space Center on December 2021 with on board three telescopes observing the universe at high energies and measuring the polarisation in X-rays emitted by large cosmic sources such as supernovas, black holes and pulsars. IXPE is a NASA…...
BEPICOLOMBO: THE THIRD OVERFLIGHT ON MERCURY
#BepiColombo, the ESA/Jaxa Mission developed with the strong support of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – ASI and INAF, on 19th June at 21:34 (Italian time) had its third close encounter with Mercury, from an altitude of about 236 kilometres. For the satellite this was the sixth close encounter with a planet…...
