Einstein Probe
TelescopeSatellite with a wide-field telescope of twelve lobster-eye modules and a follow-up X-ray telescope.
- Launch mass
- 1,450 kg
- Size
- 2.8 m × 2.4 m
- Power
- Solar
- Designator
- 2024-007A
Image: China News Service · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 9 Jan 202407:03:00 UTC
- Active for
- 2 years 10 months
- Destinations
- Low Earth orbit
A Chinese Academy of Sciences mission, with ESA and German partners, that watches wide areas of the sky for sudden bursts of X-rays from events such as stars torn apart by black holes.
Milestones
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Spacecraft
Active
Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.