China launches Kuafu-1 satellite to unravel secrets of the Sun

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: October 12 2022

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China launched the Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), named Kuafu-1.
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was launched onboard a Long March-2D rocket.
The observatory has been placed in an orbit about 720 kilometers above the planet, higher than the orbit of the International Space Station.
The observatory, which is about 859 kilograms, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Kuafu-1 has been launched with three major instruments, which include the Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST), the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI), and the Full-disk Vector MagnetoGraph (FMG).