We present T-REX: The Time-Resolving Experiment, a satellite mission which will capture the first video of a black hole. T-REX will achieve the finest temporal resolution in the history of astronomy, by leveraging a Low-Earth Orbit Very-Long-Baseline-Interferometry (VLBI) SmallSat platform. T-REX will constrain Sgr A∗’s spin to ≤10% ground truth by capturing time-resolved videos of Sgr A∗at 86 GHz. T-REX will operate at λ∼3.5mm with a d∼2.5m antenna operating at a primary receiver temperature of ∼20K, with a frequency bandwidth ∆fBW = 32 GHz.

T-REX: Time Resolving Explorer Satellite

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