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Satech-01

(SY-1, Kongjian Xinjishu Shiyan 01)
(Chinese experimental spacecraft)

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).


(spacecraft,Chinese)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetica_1#Launches
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/satech-01.htm
https://sun.bao.ac.cn/SUTRI/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RAA....23f5014B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RAA....23i5007L/abstract

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