This week, taking a look at the life and untimely death of the Hittomi satellite.

Everybody is devastated by it. Everything should have been double and triple checked.

And the environmental legacy of landscape architect Capability Brown.

I think if he was alive today, he would be very sensitive to nature conservation.

He would be designing places for nature as well as for people.

Plus, why research into peer review is just as important as peer review itself.

This is the nature podcast for July the 7th, 2016.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

First up, Adam takes a look at the first publication to come from the Hittomi satellite, launched earlier this year.

The Hittomi satellite was going to be a groundbreaking observatory. Its ability to

precisely measure x-rays would allow it to study some of the hottest objects in the universe,

from matter being sucked into black holes to the superheated matter between galaxies. And when

the spacecraft was launched in February this year, everything appeared to go without a hitch.

Here's Andy Fabian, a science advisor to the Japanese, US and European team, behind the Hitomi

mission.

It had a great launch, everything worked very well, was put into a very good orbit, and everything

set for a great observatory, it's a great at space observatory.

But it wasn't smooth sailing for long.

After just five weeks of operation, some teething problems led the satellite to try to enter

safe hold mode.

When there's a problem on a satellite, you then cause everything just to move and

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