This small-scale exploration lander is designed to demonstrate a "pinpoint" landing at a specific location within 100 meters.
, which was rescheduled several times due to bad weather, occurred aboard an H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center at 8.42am Japan Standard Time on Thursday.
The satellite and its two instruments will observe the universe's hottest regions, largest structures and objects with the strongest gravity, according to NASA.Studying stellar explosions and black holes "But of course, we're most excited about all the unexpected phenomena XRISM will discover as it observes our cosmos."
Resolve tracks tiny temperature shifts that help it determine the source, composition, motion and physical state of X-rays. "We anticipate many new insights about the hottest objects in the universe, which include exploding stars, black holes and galaxies powered by them, and clusters of galaxies.""The spectra XRISM collects will be the most detailed we've ever seen for some of the phenomena we'll observe," said Brian Williams, NASA's XRISM project scientist at Goddard, in a statement.
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