中国首颗综合性太阳探测专用卫星邀你来取名！

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由中国太阳物理学家自主提出的中国第一颗综合性太阳探测专用卫星——先进天基太阳天文台(Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory，简称ASO-S)，将于2022年10月在酒泉卫星发射中心发射升空。现向全球开启为卫星征名的活动。（扫描文中二维码，为太阳探测卫星起个耐高温的名字吧！）

据悉，这台重888千克，运行在距地球表面720千米高处太阳同步轨道的探测专用卫星，采用了全日面矢量磁像仪、莱曼阿尔法太阳望远镜、太阳硬X射线成像仪。卫星的设计寿命大于4年，研制时间超过5年。

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has initiated a global name collection for the country's newest solar observatory, which will be launched into a sun-synchronous orbit in October. 

The 888-kilogram observatory has a half-tonne precursor, "Xihe," a Chinese H-alpha Solar Explorer (CHASE), named after the sun goddess in ancient Chinese mythology and launched last October to study the violent and sudden physical processes behind solar flares.

The newest Chinese solar observation satellite, the Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), is to help solar physicists study the relationships between the solar magnetic field, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

The ASO-S logo. /CAS

For the first time ever, ASO-S has three payloads on a single platform: the Full-disk vector MagnetoGraph (FMG), the Lyman-α Solar Telescope (LST) and the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI).

It will circle the Earth once every 90 minutes in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 720 km. Meanwhile, "Xihe" is in a low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 517 km.

ASO-S has a design life of more than four years, one year longer than "Xihe," and will make follow-up observations for the latter for the upcoming solar maximum in 2025. 

Together with other such observatories, it will help provide a fuller picture of solar activity and dynamics for studies on the sun and benefit all human beings.

China usually names its space probes and programs from ancient Chinese mythology or classical literature.

The QR code for the Chinese webpage of the naming event. /CAS

During the next two weeks, ASO-S' name collection participants are invited to scan a QR code to submit suggestions in Chinese.

According to CAS, the top 10 will be awarded souvenirs, while the winner might get the chance to go to the launch site to observe the historic liftoff of the solar observatory.

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