AGILE (satellite)

AGILE (Italian Astro- rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero ) is a small satellite of the Italian Space Agency ASI based on the platform Mita, which the company COSMOS shot with the Indian launch vehicle PSLV - C8 on 23 April 2007 on a 550 km high equatorial orbit. The satellite built the company Carlo Gavazzi Space.

The payload consists of an imaging 60 ° wide- angle detector for hard gamma radiation, which is to search the universe after gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy Strahlungssquellen. The data sends AGILE with a ruby ​​- module via the Orbcomm system to the ground.