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- The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was launched aboard the Long March-2D carrier rocket by China.
- It is nicknamed Kuafu-1, after a mythical giant that sought to capture and tame the sun.
- It will enable scientists to capture and study the previously unprecedented images of the Sun during the “solar maximum”.
- The solar maximum is expected to occur around the year 2025.
- The ASO-S is China’s first full-scale satellite dedicated to researching the Sun.
- It is the world’s first solar telescope capable of simultaneously monitoring both solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
- This mission is similar to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter.
- India is planning to launch a similar solar mission in 2023 called Aditya-L1 to research the solar atmosphere.
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