Next-generation solar-observing satellite SOLAR-C

Exploring the Rainbow Beyond the Blue

Our Earth and other solar system objects are orbiting in the high-temperature plasma of the Sun and are ceaselessly affected via its solar wind, electromagnetic waves, and energetic particles. SOLAR-C is the next-generation solar-observing satellite which will unravel the formation mechanisms of the hot plasma and Sun's effects on the Earth and solar system ultimately seeking the origin of the solar system and life. Its on-board telescope EUVST (EUV High-throughput Spectroscopic Telescope) "explores the rainbow beyond the blue," namely, it solves the mysteries of solar atmosphere by analyzing the spectrum of the Sun's extreme UV radiation. In close collaboration with the US and European parters, ISAS/JAXA and NAOJ are now developing SOLAR-C to achieve higher sensitivity and resolution than any previous EUV spectrometer, with the targeted launch of late 2020s.

Updates

Mar. 1, 2024: SOLAR-C Project Team launched in JAXA
Mar. 1, 2024: X (twitter) has been launched
Nov. 13, 2023: Solar-C presentation in Hinode-16/IRIS-13 Joint Science Meeting
Jun. 8, 2023: International full-team meeting held in-person
Nov. 1, 2022: SOLAR-C Pre-Project Team launched in JAXA
Apr. 6, 2022: 15 years of Hinode
Mar. 24, 2022: 5th international virtual full-team meeting
Mar. 2-4, 2022: Solar-C presentations in ASJ 2022 Spring Annual Meeting
Feb. 11, 2022: The US satellite mission “MUSE” was selected as a NASA MIDEX
Jan. 26, 2022: 4th international virtual full-team meeting
Jan. 6-7, 2022: Solar-C presentations in Space Science Symposium
Nov. 30, 2021: 3rd international virtual full-team meeting
Oct. 25, 2021: Solar-C presentation in Hinode-14/IRIS-11 Joint Science Meeting
Sep. 28, 2021: Solar-C presentations in ASJ 2021 Autumn Annual Meeting
Sep. 28, 2021: JSPC nominates Solar-C to Science Council of Japan Masterplan 2023
Sep. 10, 2021: 2nd international virtual full-team meeting
Jun. 23, 2021: International virtual meeting of Science Task Team
Jun. 17, 2021: International virtual science-team meeting
Jun. 6, 2021: Solar-C presentations in JpGU 2021
Jun. 2, 2021: Gallery is opened as a new page
Apr. 15, 2021: International virtual full-team meeting
Feb. 2, 2021: Solar-C presentations in COSPAR 2021
Jan. 25, 2021: Solar-C presentations in SPIE Conference
Jan. 6-7, 2021: Solar-C presentations in Space Science Symposium
Dec. 30, 2020: NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora
Dec. 21, 2020: Solar-C presentations in JSPC Symposium
Dec. 17, 2020: Solar-C presentation in AGU Fall Meeting 2020
Oct. 29, 2020: Solar-C presentation in AAPPS-DPP2020
Oct. 14, 2020: International virtual meeting
Oct. 8, 2020: Studying the Sun as a distant star: contributions to investigations of massive flares and exoplanet habitability
Aug. 14, 2020: International virtual meeting
Jul. 31, 2020: The first physics-based method that can predict imminent large solar flares
Jul. 31, 2020: International virtual meeting
Jul. 12-16, 2020: Solar-C presentation in JpGU-AGU 2020
Jul. 10, 2020: International virtual meeting
Jun. 21, 2020: Picked up by Twitter and Facebook of Japanese government
Jun. 8, 2020: Selected at ISAS/JAXA as 4th Competitively-chosen Middle-class mission
Jun. 4-5, 2020: International virtual meeting
Apr. 6-8, 2020: International virtual meeting
Feb. 3-7, 2020: SOLAR-C presentation in APSPM 2020
Nov. 21-22, 2019: International face-to-face meeting in NASA/GSFC
Nov. 18, 2019: NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space Weather
Nov. 6, 2019: SOLAR-C presentation in Solar Orbiter SWT meeting
Nov. 6, 2019: SOLAR-C face-to-face meeting has been held
Oct. 21, 2019: Website (English edition) is opened
Oct. 9, 2019: Website (Japanese edition) is renewed