Phase II of space project completed
China DailyResearchers monitor the operational status at the control center of the Chinese Meridian Project in Beijing on Thursday. The project is the world's first comprehensive ground-based monitoring network spanning the entire sun-Earth space environment, extending from the solar atmosphere to near-Earth space, said Li Hui, deputy director of the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The breakthrough delivers 72-hour early warnings in space weather forecasting as solar activity approaches its 11-year peak this year, which poses interference risks to space missions and navigation systems, said Luo Bingxian, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Solar Activity and Space Weather at the NSSC. By integrating 16 new observation stations with the original 15 CMP Phase I stations, the project enables unprecedented three-dimensional monitoring of space weather phenomena, from solar eruptions to the Earth's atmospheric responses. The CMP Phase II features several key technological advancements, Li said, with the Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope ranking first.
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