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The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has published the first image of a solar flare taken by China's new ASO-S Solar Space Telescope.

It is expected that in four years of work in orbit, the observatory will learn a lot about the activity of our star.

ASO-S, nicknamed Kuafu-1, became the second Chinese space telescope designed for solar research, the first was the experimental Xihe.

The decision to build it was approved by the CAS in June 2017.

On October 9, 2022, the probe was launched by the Long March 2D rocket into a sun-synchronous orbit, with an altitude of about 720 kms and an inclination of 98.2 degrees.



THE PROBE AND ITS MISSION
The probe is equipped with three scientific instruments:

  • the FMG magnetic field instrument
  • the LST Lyman-alpha telescope
  • the HXI X-ray instrument.

The scientific program is designed for 4 years and includes measurements of the solar magnetic field and observations of the occurrence and dynamics of coronal mass ejections and solar flares.

On November 11, the ASO-S made its first scientific observations targeting an M-class flare originating in the active region of AR 3112.

They were conducted in the hard X-ray range using the HXI instrument, which saw the flare and followed its dynamics.

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