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Satech-01 (Kongjian Xinjishu Shiyan 01) is a Chinese spacecraft with scientific instruments on board, including some astronomical instruments. It was deployed using a successful 2022 CAS Space booster-rocket test. (Sometimes science experiments that haven't been funded for a "production" launch make at-risk use of such test launches.) The astronomical instruments:
The latter is a technology-pathfinder for the future Einstein Probe (EP) mission's WXT (Wide-field X-ray Telescope).