China launches satellites to study the dark matter of the universe

Not only want to build a large particle accelerator, but now Chinese scientists also launch satellites called DAMPE to study dark matter in the universe. The satellite has been successfully brought to a geostationary orbit with an altitude of 500km by the Long March rocket rocket developed by the Institute of Rocket Technology and China Aerospace Technology Group.

DAMPE ( Dark Matter Particle Explorer ) is claimed to be a powerful aerospace glass, specially made to detect high-energy gamma rays, the electron and cosmic rays. Once in operation, it will observe the "corners of the universe" , which is said to have "hiding" of dark matter.

This satellite has been successfully brought to a geostationary orbit with a height of 500km.

Now astronomers still don't know exactly what dark matter is, but some reliable hypotheses suggest that it is made up of weak interactive particles (WIMPs) . These are very difficult to detect particles in the universe because they do not emit light, are easily destroyed by high-energy gamma rays or charged particles. This time, Chinese scientists claim that DAMPE is the highest resolution space telescope in the search for dark matter, which can detect these weakly interacting particles.

Professor Fan Yizhong, a member of the DAMPE development team, said: "DAMPE will measure gamma ray and cosmic ray spectra at very high energy resolutions and then look for signals of decay of dark matter if available ". However, scientists think that this job may take many years and in one example, they liken it to finding a unicorn.