COSI
NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a planned wide-field soft gamma-ray telescope that will study the origins of galactic antimatter, the formation of elements, and high-energy transients across the Milky Way and beyond.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Compton Spectrometer and ImagerCOSI Mission
- Name
- COSI
- Status
- planned
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- Description
- NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a planned wide-field soft gamma-ray telescope that will study the origins of galactic antimatter, the formation of elements, and high-energy transients across the Milky Way and beyond.
- Destination
- Near-equatorial low Earth orbit at approximately 530 km altitude for wide-field soft-gamma-ray surveys of galactic antimatter, nucleosynthesis, polarization, and high-energy transients
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/cosi/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 18:26:38 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 09:10:13 UTC
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