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The DAMPE Space Mission: Status and Main Results

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The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite orbiting at 500 km altitude in a Sun-synchronous orbit, taking data from its launch on December 17, 2015. DAMPE is composed by several particle detectors, working together to identify incoming particles and nuclei. Main goals of the DAMPE space mission are: study of cosmic-rays and electron-positron energy spectra, gamma-ray astronomy, and indirect dark matter search. The main results achieved by DAMPE will be presented in this work.

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Funding

The DAMPE mission was funded by the strategic priority science and technology projects in space science of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In China the data analysis is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(project no. 2016YFA0400200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (project nos. 11921003, 11622327, 11722328, 11851305, U1738205, U1738206, U1738207, U1738208, and U1738127), the strategic priority science and technology projects of Chinese Academy of Sciences (project no. XDA15051100), the 100 Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (project no. YESS20160196), and the Program for Innovative Talents and Entrepreneur in Jiangsu. In Europe the activities and data analysis are supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy, and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (project no. 851103).

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  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100, Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy

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Alemanno, F., on Behalf of the DAMPE Collaboration. The DAMPE Space Mission: Status and Main Results. Moscow Univ. Phys. 77, 280–283 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134922020060

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