China's Xuntian space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024 and was designed to outdo NASA's Hubble.
China is readying a major project that not only augments the nation's astronomical research agenda but bolsters the use of the country's space station complex. The spacecraft is called Xuntian, known as the Chinese Survey Space Telescope or the Chinese Space Station Telescope . The name"Xuntian" can be literally translated as"surveying the sky" or"survey of the heavens.
Field of ViewExpected to be hurled into Earth orbit next year atop a Long March 5B rocket, Xuntian can obtain high-definition panoramic views of the universe having roughly the same spatial resolution as the Hubble Space Telescope. However, China's orbiting eye has a field of view more than 300 times larger than Hubble. The field of view is the area of the heavens a telescope can see at one time.
The telescope is also the most advanced in terms of its ability to produce images in the ultraviolet spectrum among all the ongoing telescope research projects in the world, added Zhou."It's expected to greatly boost the development of astronomy, advance our country's astronomy research to an international leading level and help Chinese astronomers become a leading force in this field.
"We are still developing the prototype sample. Currently, we've completed the development of all subsystems, components, and units, and we are preparing for the test after they are assembled," said Xu Shuyan, chief designer of the Xuntian optical facility and researcher from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The institute is located on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for NASA.
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