Xuntian
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The Xuntian (; lit: Tour of Heaven) or Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) () is currently under development.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Xuntian (CSST)
- Spaceflight.image
- Xuntian Space Telescope mockup at NMC 01.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Xuntian mockup, showing its 2-meter diameter telescope
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Astronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- CNSA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 10+ years (planned)
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- Q4 2026 (planned)
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Long March 5B
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Wenchang
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- CASC
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.telescope_resolution
- 0.15 arcsec
- Spaceflight.telescope_wavelength
- 255 ~ 1000 nm (Survey camera), 0.41~0.51 THz (590~730 μm) (Terahertz receiver)
- Spaceflight.previous_mission
- Mengtian module
- Spaceflight.programme
- Tiangong program
- Spaceflight/Instruments.acronym1
- SC
- Spaceflight/Instruments.name1
- Survey camera
- Spaceflight/Instruments.acronym2
- HSTDM
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Instruments
- Survey camera
- Terahertz receiver
- Multichannel imager
- Integral field spectrograph
- Cool planet imaging coronagraph
- Comparison with other optical space telescopes
- See also
- Notes
- References
The Xuntian (; lit: Tour of Heaven) or Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) () is currently under development.
This space telescope will feature a 2-meter (6.6 foot) diameter primary mirror and is expected to have a field of view 300–350 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This will allow the telescope to image up to 40 percent of the sky using its 2.5 gigapixel camera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xuntian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.