China's next target: Solar probe

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China's next target: Solar probe

(People's Daily Online)

January 24, 2013

As China makes remarkable progress in lunar probe, the country's space exploration activity moves on to the next target - solar probe. The solar probe mission "Kuafu" was announced to enter the project development phase, said Dr. Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the academy's work conference on Monday.

The "Kuafu" project, named after the sun chaser in ancient Chinese mythology, is aimed to build a space weather forecasting system composed of three satellites.

Besides the "Kuafu" project, another four strategic space projects also phased into development stage, which include hard X-rays probe, quantum science experiment satellite, dark matter detector and recoverable science experiment satellite.

"The platform building for these five satellites is in full swing," said Bai. The hard X-rays probe project and quantum science experiment satellite project have begun to develop the prototype modules.

China's next target: Solar probe - People's Daily Online
 

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