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Concept of the solar ring mission: An overview

Science China Technological Sciences, ISSN: 1869-1900, Vol: 63, Issue: 9, Page: 1699-1713
2020
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China's Solar Ring mission

With the development of science and technology, human's activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets. In

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The concept of the Solar Ring mission was gradually formed from L5/L4 mission concept, and the proposal of its pre-phase study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in November 2018 and then by the Strategic Priority Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences in space sciences in May 2019. Solar Ring mission will be the first attempt to routinely monitor and study the Sun and inner heliosphere from a full 360-degree perspective in the ecliptic plane. The current preliminary design of the Solar Ring mission is to deploy six spacecraft, grouped in three pairs, on a sub-AU orbit around the Sun. The two spacecraft in each group are separated by about 30° and every two groups by about 120°. This configuration with necessary science payloads will allow us to establish three unprecedented capabilities: (1) determine the photospheric vector magnetic field with unambiguity, (2) provide 360-degree maps of the Sun and the inner heliosphere routinely, and (3) resolve the solar wind structures at multiple scales and multiple longitudes. With these capabilities, the Solar Ring mission aims to address the origin of solar cycle, the origin of solar eruptions, the origin of solar wind structures and the origin of severe space weather events. The successful accomplishment of the mission will advance our understanding of the star and the space environment that hold our life and enhance our capability of expanding the next new territory of human.

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Yu Ming Wang; Cheng Long Shen; Jing Nan Guo; Quan Hao Zhang; Kai Liu; Xiao Lei Li; Rui Liu; Shui Wang; Hai Sheng Ji; Ya Min Wang; Li Dong Xia; Zheng Hua Huang; Jing Xiu Wang

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