'The Xuntian telescope has been the most important scientific project since the launch of our country's space station program.'
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesChina 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 .
In an interview last year with China's state-run Xinhua news agency, Li Ran, project scientist of the CSST Scientific Data Reduction System, used the analogy of imaging a flock of sheep to point out CSST's capabilities. Moreover, this super-scope will stay in the same orbit as the space station for long-term independent flight and observations. It is designed to temporally dock with the space station for hands-on supply, maintenance and upgrading by Tiangong astronauts, Lin said.
But Xuntian covers a field of view which is about 5 to 8 times wider than that of Hubble, Li emphasized last year in the journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. "After this, we will start the development of the telescope sample, and start the research of the flying parts. Then we will conduct the joint test with the Xuntian platform and the test at the launch base, before it is launched," Xu told CCTV.In the big picture world of expanding the frontiers of space astronomy you need to look no further than the achievements of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
From the little that is known, Brown said it seems like China's Space Station Telescope will have a larger field of view than Hubble, but a smaller mirror, with less collecting area and spatial resolution. The spectral resolution appears to be significantly lower than that available on Hubble, and CSST does not extend into the far-ultraviolet, that is, below 200 nanometers.
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