China to launch space telescope in 2023 to decipher cosmic mysteries

By Abigail Adcox

Published May 23, 2022 10:40am ET

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China to launch space telescope in 2023 to decipher cosmic mysteries — China is expected to launch its flagship space telescope in late 2023, an effort to rival NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Chinese Space Station Telescope, or Xuntian Space Telescope, meaning “survey to heavens,” could provide researchers with new knowledge of “distant galaxies, mysterious dark matter and dark energy, and the past and future evolutions of […]

China is expected to launch its flagship space telescope in late 2023, an effort to rival NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

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