Beijing, December 17, 2015, 09:43 – REGNUM Today at 8:12 am local time at the launch site in Jiuquan (Gansu Province, China) held a successful launch of China’s first satellite, which can be a scientist to study dark matter.
After three months of tests on the various orbiting satellite go to search for and study dark matter, observing that due to its characteristics, can not be from Earth. It is expected that the space expedition will take 3 years. The total weight of the satellite was nearly 2 tons, as part of its equipment has 4 probe, whose work is coordinated through the computer.
In addition to the search and study of dark matter, the Chinese satellite will be used to study the origin of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. The first results of the satellite can be published within six months, he writes “Zhongguo Ribao».
Dark matter is a form of matter that does not emit electromagnetic radiation and does not interact with it. This makes it impossible to direct observation. For the first time the term “dark matter” used the astronomers James Jeans and Jacobus Kapteyn in 1922.
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