China's First Space Telescope Under Development | CGTN

China's First Space Telescope Under Development | CGTN

China is developing the prototype of the country's first space telescope Xuntian, or Chinese Survey Space Telescope, also known as the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). It will maintain a similar orbit to China's Space Station (CSS) to allow docking and crew servicing. The 10-ton, bus-sized space telescope has an aperture of 2 meters (6.6 foot) and state-of-the-art detectors. It is expected to have a field of view 300–350 times larger than the 32-year old Hubble Space Telescope. This will allow the telescope to image up to 40 percent of the sky using its 2.5 gigapixel camera over ten years. The space telescope will be launched after the construction of China's Space Station is completed later in 2022.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: July 18, 2022

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