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Xihe (CHASE)
Long March 2D
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LAUNCH SITETaiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
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.
- Launch vehicle
- Long March 2D
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 9
- Provider
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Long March 2D
The Long March 2D, also known as the Chang Zheng 2D, CZ-2D and LM-2D, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is a 2-stage carrier rocket mainly used for launching LEO and SSO satellites.
- Height
- 38.3 m
- Diameter
- 3.35 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 96
- First flight
- 1992-08-09
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Launch site & orbit
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
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