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The space-based DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) detector has been taking data since its successful launch in December 2015. Since then it has been in stable operation collecting very high quality data on the main components of the cosmic radiation above a few GeV and reaching, for some components, the PeV scale.
The main scientific goals of the mission include the indirect search for dark matter signatures in the cosmic electron and gamma-ray spectra, the measurements of galactic cosmic ray fluxes up to the (sub)PeV region and high energy gamma ray astronomy above a few GeV.
In these years important evidences were obtained for the first time with high precision (e.g. in the all-electron spectrum at 1TeV, a universal softening for protons and nuclei at 15TV) and other phenomena were firmly confirmed (e.g. using photons: dark matter upper limits using spectral line search, a galactic center excess, the Fermi bubbles). Moreover, other analyses, including high energy cross-section measurements, search for fractionally charged particles and study of Forbush decreases, were carried on.
After a short review on the detector performance, latest science results will be shown and discussed, together with highlights from ongoing analyses.