Progress Report on ASO-S: 2022–2024

Abstract

The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) marked China’s first comprehensive solar mission in space. Drawing upon the previous reports covering 2018‒2020 and 2020‒2022, we present here an update on the ASO-S made from 2022 to 2024. In August 2022, ASO-S completed its Phase D study and was successfully launched on October 9, 2022. The commissioning phase was carried out and concluded within the first nine months following the launch. The data and associated analysis software have been opened to the community and the research on the early ASO-S data has been well developed. We anticipate also the achievements in data research pertaining to ASO-S in the near future.

Keywords

• Space astronomy
• Solar physics
• Spacecraft