Japan passes broken space telescope

- A prestigious Japanese space mission failed. The space telescope Hitomi (eye pupil) had to scour the universe, but is broken up into pieces. Research shows that it can not be saved, the Japanese space agency JAXA announced on Thursday.

The Hitomi has cost about 31 billion yen, converted about 250 million euros. The probe was launched in February. A month later, during testing, the signal suddenly fell away. Then it turned out that the satellite had fallen apart in at least five pieces, and he flew into a much lower orbit.

Probably the flight controllers on Earth has made a mistake, which began to turn the probe quickly. That was fatal; the satellite was not able to withstand the forces that were released thereby. tried in vain to reconnect a month Japan.

The Hitomi had to include searching for traces of dark energy and dark matter. According to theories of physics were to exist; they explain what we can see, but they have never been directly observed.