ESA - Integral - The spacecraft

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Integral's mission

What's special?Why do we observe gamma rays?Observations: Seeing in the gamma-ray wavelengths The atoms that make us The densest objects in the Universe Giant black holes Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)

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Devised by a team of scientists under joint French-German leadership, SPI will gauge gamma-ray energies with exceptional precision. It uses a coded mask. Participants: Germany and France, also Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, and United States.

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The sharpest gamma-ray images to this day will come from IBIS which is developed by an Italian-led team. It also uses a coded mask. Participants: Italy, also Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Poland, and United States.

Credits: ESA

Last update: 14 September 2004

ESA's gamma-ray astronomy mission

Observations: Seeing in the gamma-ray wavelengths Observations: Seeing in X-ray wavelengths