BEIJING – China launches state of the art Satellite, first ever by anyNation in the history.
China has launched a satellite observatory capable of detectinggravitational waves like never before, the first such device in use by anynation.
The new satellite carries hyper-sensitive equipment and aims to trackgravitational waves, or ripples in space-time traveling at light-speedacross the universe.
The ripples, first predicted in theory by physicist Albert Einstein, areproduced by a variety of phenomena involving mass moving at very highspeeds, including a star exploding in a supernova, two big stars orbitingeach other or a collision between two black holes, according tolink the US space agencyNASA.
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The waves squeeze and stretch matter as they ripple across the universe -something the Taiji-1 satellite, launched by China on August 31, hopes todetect with better accuracy and subtlety than ever before.
“This is the first step of China’s space-based gravitational wavedetection,” Xiangli Bin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), told Xinhualink on Friday.“But there is still a long way to go to realize detecting gravitationalwaves in space. Chinese scientists will continue to contribute Chinesewisdom to the exploration and human progress.”
