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Xinhua
22:42 UTC+8, 2021-01-21
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China's solar probe, Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2022, marking the country's first-ever mission to "touch" the sun.
Xinhua
22:42 UTC+8, 2021-01-21
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China’s first solar probe, Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, is scheduled to be launched 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 kilometers above Earth to keep a close tab on the sun 24 hours a day. About 1,000 kilograms, 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.