Post by Logan on Mar 28, 2016 5:12:34 GMT -6
TOKYO – Japan’s space agency says communication has failed with a newly launched, innovative satellite with X-ray telescopes meant to study black holes and other space mysteries.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spokeswoman Izumi Yoshizaki said Monday that efforts to restore communication links since the problem began Saturday afternoon have been unsuccessful, and it was investigating what might have happened to the satellite, which is called Hitomi and was launched Feb. 17.
“We are really doing our best,” she said by telephone in Tokyo.
She said the agency was looking into a statement from the Joint Space Operations Center, the U.S. military organization that tracks and identifies objects in space, that Hitomi may have splintered into several pieces.
Whether that had happened or not is unclear, Yoshizaki said.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/27/japan-reports-trouble-contacting-innovative-new-sa/
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spokeswoman Izumi Yoshizaki said Monday that efforts to restore communication links since the problem began Saturday afternoon have been unsuccessful, and it was investigating what might have happened to the satellite, which is called Hitomi and was launched Feb. 17.
“We are really doing our best,” she said by telephone in Tokyo.
She said the agency was looking into a statement from the Joint Space Operations Center, the U.S. military organization that tracks and identifies objects in space, that Hitomi may have splintered into several pieces.
Whether that had happened or not is unclear, Yoshizaki said.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/27/japan-reports-trouble-contacting-innovative-new-sa/