Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has lost contact with his new ray space telescope Hitomi (ASTRO-H) during the start of the primary tests and calibrations. Message posted on the website of the journal Nature.
Status by Hitomi, according to representatives of agencies, is still unknown. At the same time, soldiers from the Joint Space Operations Centre (Joint Space Operations Center) were able to track the X-ray telescope and noticed in the immediate vicinity of the five objects that resemble the wreckage.
The observations indicate that the observatory is more all faced with debris, but did not explode, as some experts.
JAXA lost contact with Hitomi March 26. Since that time, managed to get a short signal from the satellite, and experts continue to work hard to re-establish contact with the astrophysical tool.
Hitomi Observatory, formerly known as ASTRO-H, designed for the study of X-rays from such space objects such as black holes, galaxies and cluster of dark matter. It carries on board a soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS) for measuring the wavelengths of 0.1 to 10 keV. With SXS scientists planned to get high-resolution images
In 2000, the predecessor of Hitomi telescope Astro-E was lost in a launch failure, and in 2005 another Japanese X-ray Observatory -. Suzaku – lost its spectrometer due to leakage helium.
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