This article is about the Chinese Space Project. For the mythical giant, see
Kua Fu.
The Kuafu project (simplified Chinese: 夸父计划; traditional Chinese: 夸父計劃; pinyin: Kuāfù Jìhuà) is a Chinese space project to establish a space weather forecasting system composed of three satellites, originally to be completed by 2012.[1] At of the Solar Wind XIII conference[2] in June 2012, the planned launch date is 2017.
One of these satellites will be placed at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian Point L1, while the other two will be placed in polar orbits.[3]
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