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China released on Tuesday the first batch of scientific images captured by the country's Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S,) also known as Kuafu-1, a satellite specially designed to carry out comprehensive probes of the Sun.
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.
A global team of astrophysicists has located the area in space that is shaped like a “Manatee,” a gigantic aquatic creature, from which strong, extremely energetic x-rays are being emitted into space.
China plans to launch first space-based Sun-observing satellite by 2022: chief scientist Deng Xiaoci Published: Jan 12, 2021 05:48 PM Photo: Courtesy of Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS Tests on the prototype of China's first space-borne comprehensive solar observation satellite will come close to completion by the end of January, and the spacecraft is expected to be launched by 2022, according to Gan Weimin, chief scientist with the program. The satellite, codenamed Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory or ASO-S, is tasked with conducting long-term continuous solar observation for at leas...