China's new satellite will be '10 to15 times more powerful than NASA's Kepler telescope'.
reveals. This month, scientists will release a detailed outline of the country's first mission aimed at discovering exoplanets.The mission will look for exoplanets — the term for any planet beyond our Solar System — within the Milky Way, with the goal of finding an Earth-like planet orbiting the habitable zone of its Sun. Scientists believe that such a planet could have the ideal conditions for harboring life., mainly thanks to the Kepler telescope.
China's space agency hopes to be the first to make that discovery. Its new project will be funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is currently in the early design phase, with an assessment by an expert panel slated for June. If all goes to plan, that panel will give the team the green light to start building their satellite, which would launch to space aboard a Long March rocket by 2026.
China's Earth 2.0 satellite is designed to carry seven telescopes, six of which will survey the Cygnus–Lyra constellations that were observed. It will have the capacity to observe approximately 1.2 million stars across a 500-square-degree patch of sky, which is almost 5 times wider than Kepler's view. It will also be able to observe dimmer and more distant stars than NASA's operational Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , which observes stars nearer Earth.
"Our satellite can essentially conduct a census that identifies exoplanets of different sizes, masses, and ages. The mission will provide a good collection of exoplanet samples for future research," Ge says.In order to find an Earth 2.0, scientists will need to observe that it has a similar orbit to Earth, transiting its Sun roughly once a year. That's why China's Earth 2.0 satellite will be trained on a particularly populated section of the Milky Way for four years.
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