BlackCAT
NASA-funded small satellite space telescope
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BlackCAT is a space telescope[1]. BlackCAT draws 120 Wikipedia views per month (space telescope category, ranking #54 of 124).[2]
Key Facts
- Field of work: black hole[3]
- Country: United States[4]
- Instance of: CubeSat[5]
- Operator: Pennsylvania State University[6]
- Named after: black hole[7], coded aperture[8]
- Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University[9], Kongsberg NanoAvionics[10], Luxel[11]
- Space launch vehicle: Falcon 9 Block 5[12]
- Country of origin: United States[13]
- Powered by: spacecraft solar array[14]
- Type of orbit: Sun-synchronous orbit[15]
- UTC date of spacecraft launch: January 11, 2026[16]
- Significant event: research proposal[17], rocket launch[18], project selection[19]
- Carries scientific instrument: X-ray telescope[20]
- Start point: Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 East[21]
- Official name: Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope[22]
- Short name: BlackCAT[23]
- Capital cost: 5,800,000 US dollars[24]
- Volume as quantity: 6 cubesat unit[25]
- Funder: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[26]
- Principal investigator: Abraham D. Falcone[27]