A Mega-project on Space Weather Monitoring Gets the Green Light

摘要

A 200-million-yuan (25 million dollars) mega-project of science research on space weather monitoring, namely the Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project (Meridian Project for short), proposed by several research institutes and universities in China has been approved recently by the Chinese government. With the objectives of investigating the cause-consequence chain of the space weather in the solar-terrestrial space, understanding the processes of the catastrophic space weather events, and the regional characteristics of the environment above China's territory so as to help ensuring the safety of space activities such as satellite operation, the project will set up a large-scale ground-based monitoring system composed of 15 stations along the Longitude of 120 deg E and the Latitude of 30 deg N, says Prof. WANG Chi, vice commander-general and chief engineer of the project.