Q.1909

China on 17 December 2015 launched the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite. Its purpose is to search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter.

The satellite was nicknamed ____ after the Monkey King with penetrating eyes in the Chinese classical fiction Journey to the West.

Fill in the blank with the name of this mythological figure.

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Wukong

It was the country’s first space telescope and launched on a Long March 2-D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.