17 June 2020
Yangwang 1 commercial space telescope has completed an optical survey of the whole sky. The telescope, launched on 11 June 2021, was developed by Shenzhen-based Origin Space Technology Co., Ltd. for asteroid resource exploration and research. So far, Yangwang 1 carried out sky survey observation, atmospheric luminous observation, night remote monitoring and asteroid observation. The spatial resolution of the nighttime images is under 30 m. Origin Space plans to build a constellation in the future, which will be composed of multiple multi-band space telescopes. The first phase of the network with 10 satellites is expected to be completed in 2023.
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