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Gamma-Ray Telescope to Sleuth for Origin of Elements

Rocket launching INTEGRAL from pad Photo credit: ESA - S.Corvaja

The International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), a space-science mission led by the European Space Agency, launched successfully on October 17, 2002, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket. The satellite will now undergo system checks for two months before attaining first light.

INTEGRAL's primary goals include mapping the radioactive remains of exploded stars, detecting matter-antimatter collisions in our Galaxy's core and around black holes and neutron stars, and detecting gamma-ray bursts.

"INTEGRAL detects a form of light invisible to our eyes to peer into places in the Universe where new elements are being created, elements of which we and all things around us are made," said Dr. Bonnard Teegarden of Goddard, the NASA Project Scientist for the INTEGRAL mission. "This powerful new observatory is a successor to instruments aboard NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the landmark gamma-ray astronomy mission of the 1990s."

For the complete article on INTEGRAL, go to: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-
release/releases/2002/02-150.htm

NASA 's Mission:
*To understand and protect our home planet
*To explore the Universe and search for life
*To inspire the next generation of explorers
…as only NASA can

For a further details of the NASA mission, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/bios/vision.html

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