China sent the country s Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) - a satellite specially designed to carry out a comprehensive probe of the Sun - into preset orbit via a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Sunday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China s Gansu Province.
25 January 2021, 12:05 am EST By
China is planning its first ever solar probe coded Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) scheduled to launch next year. The solar mission will be the country s first ever mission to touch the sun, where it will be performing a 24-hour continuous observation of the sun, for a duration of at least four years. It is expected to lift in the first half of 2022.
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About China s Solar Probe
The mission is set to orbit 720km or 447 miles above the Earth carrying with it a magnetic detector, a solar telescope as well as an X-ray imager, which is meant to record all of the activities in the sun including its magnetic fields and stormy activities. According to Gan Weiqun, the mission s chief scientist in an interview with Xihuan News Channel, this will identify the space s weather forecast.
HONG KONG, Jan 24 (SCMP): China is planning to launch its first solar mission next year.
The probe, code-named the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), is scheduled for lift-off in the first half of 2022. Orbiting 720km (447 miles) above the Earth it will “perform 24-hour continuous observation” for at least four years, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday.
The probe would carry a magnetic detector, a solar telescope and an X-ray imager to track the sun’s magnetic fields and stormy activities, which were the “key to the space weather forecast”, Gan Weiqun, the mission’s chief scientist, told Xinhua.
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China s first solar probe to be lofted in 2022
1 2021-01-21 14:14:54Xinhua
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China s first solar probe, Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), is scheduled to be launched into space in the first half of 2022, marking the country s first-ever mission to touch the sun.
The satellite will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit 720 km above Earth to keep a close tab on the sun 24 hours a day. Measuring about 1,000 kg in total mass, the satellite is expected to orbit the sun for at least four years, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a research institute based in Nanjing, east China s Jiangsu Province.