The Wide-Field X and Gamma-Ray Telescope ECLAIRs aboard the Gamma-Ray   Burst Multi-Wavelength Space Mission SVOM
  The X and Gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs is foreseen to be launched on a low Earth orbit (h=630 km, i=30 degrees) aboard the SVOM satellite (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor), a French-Chinese mission with Italian contribution. Observations are expected to start in 2013. It has been designed to detect and localize Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) or persistent sources of the sky, thanks to its wide field of view (about 2 sr) and its remarkable sensitivity in the 4-250 keV energy range, with enhanced imaging sensitivity in the 4-70 keV energy band. These characteristics are well suited to detect highly redshifted GRBs, and consequently to provide fast and accurate triggers to other onboard or ground-based instruments able to follow-up the detected events in a very short time from the optical wavelength bands up to the few MeV Gamma-Ray domain. 
P. Mandrou, S. Schanne, B. Cordier, R. Pons, D. Barret, C. Amoros, K.   Lacombe, M. Fesquet, O. Limousin, P. Sizun, F. Lebru...