🚀 Epsilon S · SOLAR-C (TBD) · NET November 2028

Thursday, November 30, 2028 All day
Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

SOLAR-C is a Japan-led international mission with the cooperation by the US and European countries. It aims to gain new insights into the fundamental physical mechanisms driving solar plasma dynamics by performing three simultaneous UV observations. The first consists to observe the broad range of temperatures, spanning over three orders of magnitude from the 10,000 Kelvin chromosphere to the million Kelvin corona, and even to the 15 million Kelvin solar flares. The second consists to resolve the elemental structures at high spatial (0.4 arcsec) and temporal (1 sec) resolution and trace their evolutions by increasing the ability to collect the solar UV rays 10 to 30 times as much as before. The third consists to conduct a high dispersion spectroscopy (equivalent to a velocity resolution of 2 km/s) to obtain spectroscopic information that enables quantitative diagnostics (such as velocity, temperature, density, ionization degree, and abundance). By combining the three observations, SOLAR-C can analyze the dynamically evolving solar atmospheres over a wide altitude range from the chromosphere to the corona while resolving elemental structures. No earlier than November 2028 · To Be Determined Epsilon S — Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, to Sun-Synchronous Orbit Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Data: Launch Library 2, The Space Devs. Image via The Space Devs.

🚀 Epsilon S · SOLAR-C (TBD) · NET November 2028