China Revelation Kuafu project: the sun will be a 24-hour surveillance
Posted on May 8th, 2008 in Scientific exploration
In 2014 the day, if you suddenly find that your phone does not signal that your car GPS positioning suddenly out of order, no TV images, a black city because of power failures…… you do not think that the United States is staged at Hollywood area, the experts will Tell you that all this is the solar magnetic storms Rede disaster.
"Solar magnetic storms and other events have been with the outbreak of the sun on the Earth, like tornadoes or hurricanes, the human cause serious harm" he said. "Kua Fu plan" an important participant and organizer, School of Earth and Space Science Institute Professor of Zuo Xiao "Beijing Science and Technology" said. In order to strengthen the Japan-Earth space environment prediction of the theoretical study and work by Chinese scientists proposed the "Kua Fu" has been launched, in the 2012 plan, launched three satellites, which will stand on Kuafu-A 1.5 million km from Earth The forefront, for all humanity "Zhangangfangshao", the Sun a 24-hour monitoring, forecasting the sun at the outbreak of the incident.
Apart from the bright sun and bring human warmth, his own activities are quite frequent, there are sunspots, spot, the spectrum of grouper, flares, coronal Prominence and transient events, and other forms.
The solar magnetic storms in the solar activity is the most severe outbreak of the sun for energy to increase the space to release a large number of charged particles of high-speed particles. When the solar magnetic storms occur, would seriously interfere with the power system, satellite and radio communications system, the many facilities and even damage the ozone layer.
December 6, 2006, the Earth has emerged in the scientists unexpected solar flare, the results of sunshine in the area almost Wuyixingmian GPS receiver, not the accuracy of decline, is the complete loss of function of positioning, satellite and transmission networks Affected.
"Although the outbreak of the sun's influence on human events have been great, but we forecast the outbreak of the sun's ability is still very weak." Professor Xiao Zuo said.
Professor Xiao Zuo said that 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, located on the connection on the L1 point (the first Lagrange point) is the sun and Earth balance between the gravity, but also "monitor" the most solar activity Good location, if put in here a satellite, the satellite will always be the "stare" of the sun. Observation of solar activity here has a natural advantage, thus many space weather expert favorites. However, as too distant from Earth, the craft simply can not normally reach, therefore, the L1 point in the sun to run on satellite monitoring of only the United States and the European Community launched the SOHO satellite and the United States launched the ACE satellite.
However, SOHO satellite and satellite ACE has超期服役years, a few years later, if we CMEs observation helpless in the case, the consequences just as we no tornado or hurricane preparedness, geomagnetic storms and other space disaster will be Wantonly against humanity.
"Kua Fu" is a crisis for the sun, the earth aurora and space weather environment exploration program. The plan by the three satellites, which Kuafu-A installed in 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, and the connection, to all-weather monitoring of the occurrence of solar activity and its associated phenomena. Another two B1 and B2 satellite in polar orbit the Earth's elliptical orbit flight on the common-rail, used to monitor solar activity led to the near-Earth space environment changes. If the project implementation schedule, will be the world's only system, a space exploration program.
Since 2012 will be the next peak in solar activity, 2012-2014 solar activity will be very strong, "Kua Fu" in the proposed three satellites launched within this time, mainly for observation to a new day in physical Phenomenon, further reveal the mechanism of space storms, the monitoring of interplanetary disturbances spread, for disaster prediction of the space environment observation data. Initial flight hours will be 2-3 years.
At present, "Kua Fu" has successfully completed the task of background research, feasibility studies for the assessment after the passage into the next phase of technology research.
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