China & France launch X-Ray telescope satellite to monitor most powerful explosions in space

A LANDMARK MISSION: A Long March 2C lifted off from Xichang at 0700 UTC today, successfully sending the Sino-French SVOM space science satellite into orbit to study Gamma-Ray Bursts. A #LongMarch2C rocket carrying the Space Variable Objects Monitor (#SVOM)Satellite, has been launched from the #Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. A French-Chinese satellite mission, Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), will launch to study gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most powerful explosions. These bursts stem from events like neutron star collisions or supernovae and provide insights into the early universe and the formation of stars and galaxies. This mission illustrates ongoing scientific collaboration between China and European countries, despite existing political tensions. This mission also involves ground observatories from both countries putting up follow-up observations within hours of detecting gamma ray bursts & transients such that their true natures can be more actively hunted down: #chinaspace