China's kuafu-1 Flashcards
Real name of the telescope?
Advanced Space-based Solar observatory (ASO-S) abroad (Long March 2-D)
Venue?
Jiuquan satellite launch center in northwestern part of China
When was it nicknamed kuafu?
After a mythical giant sought to capture and tame the sun
This solar mission is expected to last for what period/
4 yrs
Till which year the solar maximum is expected to occur around?
2025
Features?
*World’s first full scale satellite capable of simultaneously monitoring both solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
It will study Sun from an orbit of what km above the surface of earth?
720 km above the surface of earth
How much data will it send concerning sun’s magnetic field?
500GB
A similar solar mission in India plan?
Aditya-L1 (2023)
The data is transferred in packages to what kind of computer?
2048 core computer in PURPLE MOUNTAIN OBSERVATORY
Commissioning phase
6 month long phase
This satellite launched which three major phases?
1-Lyman alpha solar telescope
2-Full disk Vector magnetograph
3-HardX-ray Imager
Probing the sun time?
24 hrs….. not more than 18 mins
It is 4th big mission exploring the sun after?
NASA PARKER SOLAR PROBE
Parker probe and China’s xihe probe launched in?
2021