Integral - 5th anniversary
ESA TV Exchanges
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS53718.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/INTEGRAL_DV_15-10-07_wmphigh.wmv

Title: Integral celebrates five years in orbit
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(countryside view & zoom into night sky) Stars are born, grow and die of old age just like living things. Some stars end their lives with a ""bang"", the loudest in the Universe and for a fleeting instant they may shine with the brightness of a billion Suns.
Over the past five years, the European Space Agencyís Integral gamma-ray mission ñ in cooperation with Russia and the United States ñ has provided high-resolution imagery and spectroscopy, locating high-energy sources, identifying their constituents and cataclysmic behaviours, and mapping the greater part of the sky.
Peter Kretschmar, Integral deputy project scientist, ESA « Integral has observed more than 80% of the sky because it has this relatively wide field of view so any time we look at one field we see a quite large field of sky around it and doing that we find new sources. 120 in the first year, more than 100 the next year and it's now it's about 500. Most of them