An introduction to KuaFu project (scientific goals, scientific payloads, historical events, present status and perspectives)
Abstract
KuaFu mission is composed of three spacecraft KuaFu-A and KuaFu B1 and B2 KuaFu-A will be located at the L1 Lagrangian point The satellite pair KuaFu-B1 B2 will fly on the same polar Earth orbit but with a phase difference of half-period KuaFu-A will be instrumented to continuously observe the solar disk in EUV including Lyman alpha emission to register Coronal Mass Ejections CMEs in white light and Lyman alpha radiation to trace CME propagation by radio wave measurements and to measure the local solar wind plasma and magnetic field and solar energetic particles Another remote sensing instrument will observe the hard X-ray and Gamma-ray spectrum KuaFu-B1 and -B2 will carry out continuous 24 hours a day observation of the northern hemisphere auroral oval and the ring current as well as systematic conjugate aurora observations KuaFu-B will also carry a limited suite of in situ instruments including a fluxgate magnetometer and charged particle detectors The KuaFu project is now a space science mission selected by China National Space Administration CNSA The Comprehensive Study project already began in which careful review of scientific payload initial design of spacecraft platforms launch tracking and control and data transferring will be addressed The KuaFu mission may start at the next solar maximum launch in 2012 hopefully and with an initial mission lifetime of two to three years The KuaFu mission will be an essential element of the ILWS program The scientific goal is to study globally the Sun-Earth complex system The mission is
- Publication:
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36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006cosp...36..984T