BlackCAT
NASA’s Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) is an active CubeSat using a wide-field telescope and X-ray detector to study gamma-ray bursts and other transient cosmic explosions.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Black Hole Coded Aperture TelescopeBlackCAT Mission
- Name
- BlackCAT
- Status
- active
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- Description
- NASA’s Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) is an active CubeSat using a wide-field telescope and X-ray detector to study gamma-ray bursts and other transient cosmic explosions.
- Destination
- Polar sun-synchronous low Earth orbit with anti-sunward observations for wide-field soft-X-ray monitoring of transients
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2026-01-11
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:01:58 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 08:16:03 UTC
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