Astronomers in China claim that their new space telescope will surpass Hubble.
A significant initiative is being prepared in China that will advance both the nation’s astronomical research goals and the utilisation of its space station infrastructure.
Additionally, China’s celebrity-studded project comes with bragging rights.
The spacecraft is known as Xuntian, also abbreviated as CSST or the Chinese Survey Space Telescope (CSST). The direct translation of the term “Xuntian” is “surveying the sky” or “survey of the heavens.”
The bus-sized CSST will be launched the following year and has a primary mirror with a diameter of two metres (6.6 feet). The nation’s Tiangong space station will orbit in tandem with this ultraviolet optical space telescope. The observatory’s space missions may last longer than its 10 year stated mission lifetime.
