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The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a large acceptance space instrument conceived to accurately measure electrons, protons, photons and nuclei in a wide energy range in order to study the cosmic ray spectrum and identify possible Dark Matter signatures. Selected as one of the first five satellites missions chosen by the Strategic Priority Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 2011, it will start its operation in space in Dec. 2015 for a minimum period of three years. The detector, composed by a high resolution imaging calorimeter and a silicon tracker-converter, has been calibrated with particles beam at CERN and is undergoing the last steps of the space qualification and integration procedure. We will present in detail the design of the detector and its estimated performance, the current status and the perspectives for the measurement in orbit.

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