06 May 2022
China's flagship telescope, the optical Chinese Survey Space Telescope (CSST) "Xuntian" is getting prepared for launch at the end of 2023. CSST has a 2 m aperture and a 3-mirror anastigmat design that helps it achieve superior image quality within a large field of view. The CSST will be installed with five instruments including a Survey Camera. The main focal plane of the camera is equipped with 30 81-megapixel detectors that will take images and spectra of roughly 17,500 square degrees of the median-to-high galactic latitude and median-to-high ecliptic latitude sky in multiple bands, according to the researchers.
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