Wide-field X-ray Telescope

Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) (also known as EP-WXT-pathfinder), is a wide-field List of X-ray space telescopes, X-ray imaging space telescope launched by China in July 2022.''Astronomers obtain sky's large-field X-ray maps''
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EP-WXT-pathfinder has a sensor module giving it a field of view of 340 square degrees. It is a preliminary mission testing the sensor design for the future Einstein Probe which will use a 12 sensor module WXT for a 3600 square degree field of view.''EP-WXT pathfinder catches first wide-field snapshots of X-ray universe''
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The sensor uses lobster eye optics, lobster-eye micropore optics.

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X-ray telescopes
Chinese telescopes
2022 establishments in China

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