China News Agency, Nanjing, July 11 (Reporter Yang Yanci) A reporter from China News Agency learned from the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the 11th that China's first comprehensive solar exploration dedicated satellite independently proposed by Chinese solar physicists - Advanced Space. The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in October 2022.
Now open to the whole world to call for satellite names.
It is reported that this 888-kilogram satellite, which operates in a sun-synchronous orbit at a height of 720 kilometers above the earth's surface, uses an all-solar vector magnetic imager, the Lyman Alpha Solar Telescope, and a solar hard X-ray imager.
The design life of the satellite is more than 4 years, and the development time is more than 5 years.
The sun is the star most closely related to human beings. It brings light and warmth to the earth, and also has a major impact on the ecology of the earth.
The scientific research team of the Purple Mountain Observatory said that using the opportunity of the peak year of the 25th cycle of solar activity, the satellite will conduct simultaneous observations of the two most violent eruptions on the sun - solar flares and coronal mass ejections, as well as the full-solar vector magnetic field.
This space science satellite was deployed and developed by the Space Science (Phase II) pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in October 2022 to start a journey of exploration of the sun.
This also means that new members will soon join the "big family" of China's space science satellite series such as "Wukong", "Shi Shi No. 10" and "Mozi".
To this end, the Purple Mountain Observatory is now giving the ASO-S satellite a Chinese nickname to global netizens, overseas Chinese, and domestic astronomy enthusiasts.
Requirements for naming names: avoid duplication of existing satellite names; highly fit the scientific goals of ASO-S satellites, with concise text, easy to remember, and easy to disseminate; rich in scientific and cultural connotations, showing the Chinese spirit of scientific exploration and cultural confidence; The proposal should contain no less than 15 words and no more than 200 words for the name definition.
It is reported that after the successful launch of ASO-S, the "solar storm" of the 25th solar activity cycle will be recorded in detail.
After the satellite is in orbit, it will generate about 500GB of detection data every day. All scientific data and analysis software of the satellite will be open and shared to users around the world to jointly achieve the scientific goals of ASO-S.
At that time, around the observation results of ASO-S, while studying the natural law of "one magnetic and two storms", scientists will also timely predict the impact of solar eruptions on human beings.
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