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The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was successfully launched at 23:43 UT on 8 October 2022. Here we describe the final technical status of the whole mission right before the launch, including the spacecraft platform and the three onboard payloads. The mission’s science goals, organizations, preliminary performance in the commissioning phase, and the first-light results of the three payloads are briefly presented.
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At the time that this article was accepted for publication, the tutorial on ASO-S data had already been held from 11 to 12 April 2023 online. All the materials of the tutorial have been put on the website of the mission.
At the time that this article was accepted for publication, the FMG transverse fields have not yet been obtained. The possible reason is attributed to the performance of one of the two liquid crystal variable retarders. Besides, there is a darker region in the whole-disc image. The reason and remedy are still under investigation. The details will be described in an upcoming article specifically for the instrument.
At the time that this article was accepted for publication, the SCI was found to have a defect in technological design. So far, coronal structures are almost unrecognizable in 700 nm images from SCIWL, while the Lyman-\(\alpha \) images from SCIUV look better except for some obscuration. We are still optimizing the observation parameters and modes to improve the image quality. The details will be described in an upcoming article specifically for the instrument.
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The ASO-S mission is a large scientific project and has lasted over ten years from the early concept study. Hundreds of people have been involved in the project for different periods of the time. All the participants are heartfeltly acknowledged! SDO is the first mission under NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) program. The SDO/AIA and SDO/HMI data used in this article were downloaded from the JSOC data center and they are courtesy of NASA and the science teams.
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The ASO-S is supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA15320000, XDA15320100, XDA15320102, XDA15320103, XDA15320104, XDA15320300, XDA15052200). Part of members’ own work is also supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2022YFF0503000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12233012, 12022302, 12173100, 11921003, U1731241, 11973097), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS.
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Beside the contributors listed in Table 1, the contributors on the mission-level coordination include also W. Xiong, Bin Chen, and M. Su; on the spacecraft platform Z. Yin, H. Bao, C. Cao., Y. Bai, Binglong Chen, T. He, X. Li, Ye Zhang, X. Liao, and H. Jiang; on the FMG F. Li, J. Lin, J. Hou, and X. Bai; on the HXI D. Chen, Yan Zhang, Y. Hu, Y. Liang, and J. Wang; on the LST K. Song, Q. Guo, L. He, G. Zhang, and P. Wang; on the SODC Yingna Su, S. Lei, W. Chen, Ying Li, J. Zhao, J. Li, and Y. Ge; on the missions’ other systems H. Ji, M. Gu, Y. Zheng, D. Xu, and X. Wang. The manuscript was organized by W. Gan with the help from all authors.
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Gan, W., Zhu, C., Deng, Y. et al. The Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S). Sol Phys 298, 68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-023-02166-x
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