Kuafu No.1 is one year old!

Source: China's lunar exploration and aerospaceOn October 9th, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, also known as the "Kuafu 1" scientific satellite, celebrated its first birthday. "Kuafu 1" has been in orbit steadily for 365 days, with a total of 5294 orbits orbiting the earth, more than 500 observation plans submitted, a total of about 120TB of raw data observed, more than 100TB of advanced data products produced, and more than 2TB of scientific data downloaded from satellite data since its opening on April 12, 2023

Source: China's lunar exploration and aerospace

On October 9th, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, also known as the "Kuafu 1" scientific satellite, celebrated its first birthday. "Kuafu 1" has been in orbit steadily for 365 days, with a total of 5294 orbits orbiting the earth, more than 500 observation plans submitted, a total of about 120TB of raw data observed, more than 100TB of advanced data products produced, and more than 2TB of scientific data downloaded from satellite data since its opening on April 12, 2023. At present, the satellite has completed the in orbit test task and officially delivered it to the Zijinshan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for use in orbit, Each load enters the conventional observation stage and carries out scientific research work.

The "Kuafu 1" satellite was successfully launched

October 9th, 2022

At 7:43 am on October 9, 2022, the "Kuafu 1" spacecraft was successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, achieving a breakthrough in China's space-based solar exploration satellite.

On the morning of December 13, 2022, the first batch of scientific images of the "Kuafu I" satellite were released, achieving many domestic and international firsts, and the observation ability and progressiveness of the three payloads of the "Kuafu I" satellite were verified in orbit.

On April 12, 2023, after half a year of in orbit debugging, according to the satellite operation situation and the data release policy of "Kuafu 1", "Kuafu 1" has met the conditions for some data to be open to the public in quasi real-time.

After completing the in orbit testing summary of the satellite and starting routine observation of each payload, the satellite was delivered to the user unit - Zijinshan Observatory on September 25, 2023, marking the official launch of "Kuafu 1" for scientific observation.

The successful launch of the "Kuafu 1" satellite marks the beginning of a new era of comprehensive solar space observation in China, and has received widespread attention both domestically and internationally. It has been selected as one of the top ten domestic science and technology news stories in 2022 by the Central Radio and Television Administration, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Science and Technology Daily; Top 10 News of China's Aerospace Industry in 2022 selected by China Aerospace News; The First Technology Ranking of Zhihu.com (Top 10 Technology News in 2022); Nature has reported and evaluated this.

The scientific goal of "Kuafu 1" is to use the opportunity of the 25th solar cycle peak year to observe the two most severe eruptive phenomena on the sun - solar flares and coronal mass ejections, as well as the entire solar vector magnetic field simultaneously. The research aims to study the formation, interaction, and correlation of "one magnetic field", which is the solar magnetic field, and "two storms", which are the flares and coronal mass ejections, in order to influence human spaceflight, communication Provide support for space disaster weather forecasting for high-tech activities such as navigation.

We look forward to the stable operation of the "Kuafu 1" spacecraft, obtaining high-quality observation data, fully leveraging the characteristics of the three payload combination observation, strengthening domestic and international cooperation and data sharing, and achieving the scientific goal of "one magnetic field and two storms" as soon as possible, making demonstrable contributions to the observation and research of the 25th solar activity peak year in China.

Source: Zijinshan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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