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Xihe (CHASE)
Long March 2D · Heliophysics
2021Launch Complex 9, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Mission
Xihe, also known as the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), is designed to test a newly developed satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the satellite is an Hα imaging spectrograph (HIS), which can, for the first time, acquire full-disk spectroscopic solar observations in the Hα waveband. It will complement the observations by on-orbit solar spacecraft (such as SDO, IRIS, STEREO and PSP), as well as future solar missions of the Solar Orbiter and the Chinese Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S). Mission is named Xihe after a solar deity from Chinese mythology.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 2D
- Orbit
- SSO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 9
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2