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China to Launch Solar Telescope

Posted by michael on from the doesn't-work-in-the-dark dept.

Dirak writes "China plans to launch the world's largest and most advanced space solar telescope (SST) into 735-kilometre-high earth synchronous orbit in 2008. Japan and the United States are also jointly developing an SST, coded as SOLAR-B, now scheduled for launch in the September of 2005. But with a diameter of 0.5 metre, SOLAR-B has half capability in optical resolution than that of the Chinese-made solar telescope."

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  1. Re:My Eyes! by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 2, Funny

    don't be silly, surely they're smart enough to only point it towards the sun at night...

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