China Launches Its First X-Ray Telescope
Ling Xin, Physics World
China has launched the country's first dedicated X-ray telescope to study the radiation produced by black holes and neutron stars as well as detect gamma-ray bursts. The 1bn RMB Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) was launched today at 11:00 local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in north-western China's Gobi Desert. It will now be put into low-Earth orbit with an altitude of around 550 km. First proposed in 1994 and approved in March 2011, HXMT has been developed jointly by the China Academy of Space Technology, Tsinghua University and the Institute of High Energy Physics...
China has launched the country's first dedicated X-ray telescope to study the radiation produced by black holes and neutron stars as well as detect gamma-ray bursts. The 1bn RMB Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) was launched today at 11:00 local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in north-western China's Gobi Desert. It will now be put into low-Earth orbit with an altitude of around 550 km. First proposed in 1994 and approved in March 2011, HXMT has been developed jointly by the China Academy of Space Technology, Tsinghua University and the Institute of High Energy Physics...