A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Oct. 9, 2022. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) — The satellite observation data of the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was open for trial use at home and abroad, authorities said on Wednesday.
A data release and training conference on how to use the observation data was held online, which was attended by nearly 400 solar physics experts from 25 countries.
ASO-S, China\’s first comprehensive solar exploration satellite, was launched in October last year from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
After half a year of in-orbit commissioning, the satellite has obtained about 80 TB of raw solar observation data.
Speaking at the conference, Gan Weiqun, the satellite\’s chief scientist, provided a comprehensive overview of the scope of the trial opening data, including all observations from the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) since April 1, some observations from the Full-disk Vector MagnetoGraph (FMG), and some observations from the Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST).
\”In the future, we will make adjustments based on the satellite\’s in-orbit testing, eventually making all of the satellite\’s observations available to the public in quasi-real time,\” Gan said.
The two-day conference, which began on Tuesday, was co-hosted by the Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the National Space Science Center under the CAS, and the National Space Science Data Center.