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Title    China's Insight X-Ray Telescope Will Search for Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Date    Sunday June 18 2017, @01:18PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the I-could-see-that dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/06/17/2136239

takyon writes:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-successfully-launches-x-ray-satellite

China's first astronomical satellite, an x-ray telescope that will search the sky for black holes, neutron stars, and other extremely energetic phenomena, raced into orbit [June 15th] after a morning launch from the Gobi Desert.

The 2.5-ton Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed Insight according to the official Xinhua news agency, was carried aloft by a Long March-4B rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The newest of several x-ray telescope in space, the HXMT will observe some of the most turbulent processes in the universe. The x-rays generated by those events cannot penetrate Earth's atmosphere; they can only be observed by instruments mounted on high-altitude balloons or satellites. The HXMT carries three x-ray telescopes observing at energies ranging from 20 to 200 kilo-electron volts as well as an instrument to monitor the space environment, according to its designers. While orbiting 550 kilometers above the planet, the HXMT will perform an all-sky survey that is expected to discover a thousand new x-ray sources. Over an expected operating lifetime of 4 years, it will also conduct focused observations of black holes, neutron stars, and gamma ray bursts.

Also at NASASpaceFlight. Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "designers" - http://newshxmt.ihep.ac.cn/index.php/enhome
  3. "NASASpaceFlight" - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/china-x-ray-telescope-long-march-4b/
  4. "Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_X-ray_Modulation_Telescope
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=20825

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