The next great space telescope.
Space telescopes are not all the same, they have different observation tools and instruments, in reality they are platforms equipped with different equipment and filters, there are observatories specialized simply in monitoring the sun, others in X-rays, others in radio waves, others in infrared which by the way is one of James Webb's many specialties.
But soon we will have a gigantic gravitational wave observatory thanks to the LISA, I say gigantic and perhaps I will be an understatement because you will see the LISA will consist of three spacecraft, each separated by 2 and a half million kilometers, more than six times the distance that separates the land of the moon.
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Other space observatories are dedicated to massive data surveys, an example was the Kepler space telescope, which entered service in 2009 and its mission ended in 2016. In those years, it simultaneously observed 150,000 stars and analyzed their brightness every 30 minutes to detect possible transits of planets.
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This telescope will have an initial planned mission of about 10 years, with objectives very similar to Hubble, although it will be much more powerful and with much more modern technology, the Shun Tiang can observe an area of space between 300 to 350 times larger than what Hubble can do and it also has a novel feature, which no other space telescope has at the moment, and that is that it is designed so that it can take over the Chinese space station that will orbit at the same altitude as the telescope.
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