AGILE launched!

I hear that the Italian space mission AGILE was successfully launched from India at 12:00 CEST. AGILE (I think this is pronounced a-jee-lay) is an X-ray and gamma-ray imaging spacecraft which is considered to be like a bigger version of EGRET or a smaller version of NASA's GLAST spacecraft (due for launch no earlier than December this year). Buona fortuna AGILE.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Monday 23rd Apr 2007 (16:09 BST) | Add a comment | Permalink

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