NASA has GLAST satellite into orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral (Florida) mounted on a Delta II rocket. The ship includes a telescope that has a mission to study the mysterious gamma rays that pass through the universe.
Spain collaborating on the project
"GLAST is operating independently with its solar panels and a circular orbit 460 kilometers of the surface, ready to monitor the universe and the mysterious gamma ray bursts," NASA said in a statement.
The mission is carried out in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the collaboration of academic institutions, as well as Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden
A dark matter
GLAST is a "powerful space observatory" that will explore extreme environments in the universe and search for "new laws of physics, the origin of cosmic rays and the ingredients of the mysterious dark matter," continued the statement.
seek new laws of physics
The satellite will also explain how black holes accelerate the movement of material to nearly light speed and will help elucidate the question of the bursts known as gamma ray bursts.
According to scientists from NASA, GLAST is the first gamma ray observatory capable of observing a changing world and their power ends.
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