China and France have launched a groundbreaking spacecraft to study the universe's most powerful explosions, known as gamma-ray bursts. The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) was sent into orbit by a Chinese rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
A Long March-2C rocket carrying an astronomical satellite, the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province on June 22, 2024. [Photo/Xin...