Schedule

  • 1992 Founding of the direct demodulation method.
  • 1993 Proposing of the HXMT projedct.
  • 2000 The phase A study of HXMT was selected as a "Major State Basic Research Project" (973 Project). This study is a collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University.
  • 2002 In the middle term review of the 973 Project, the review panel strongly appealed to list the HXMT project as an official scientific satellite at the national level.
  • 2003 Overcoming of the key technical difficulties of the detector and collimator construction; finish of the 1:3 ground prototype of HXMT.