X-ray space telescope, launched by China last Thursday, gave the first data operators, reports news Agency Xinhua. Institute of remote sensing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have already begun to analyze the received information.
The data volume of 2.1 GB was received by the operators Kashgar reception stations of remote sensing satellites tonight, and then they are transferred to the national space science center of the ANC. Retrieve data reported and two other stations from the area of the Miyun and Sanya.
The telescope will undergo a series of tests, tests and calibrations, which will last about five months, after which the unit will start to work. Its main task is gathering information about black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.
X-ray telescope “Insight”, weighing 2.5 tons was developed jointly by the State Department of defense science, technology and industry and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Launched into orbit by the carrier rocket “Chanchzhen-4B”, launched from the cosmodrome Jiuquan located in the Gobi desert in Northwest China. m
The first data from the Chinese space telescope Insight
Vyacheslav Larionov