China is building a space telescope to rival the JWST – and it could survive in orbit decades longer

China’s space agency is building a new space telescope that will rival current top-tier observatories. Known as the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), it will not only be as powerful as the cutting-edge James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but will also be fully repairable and upgradable from space. The CSST will join the next generation of game-changing telescopes. These include the Euclid space telescope , which was launched by the European Space Agency in July 2023; NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is in its final launch preparation; and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory , a massive ground-based installation…