US and Korean space agencies will deliver a jointly built solar coronagraph to the ISS.

According to KASA, CODEX is the first coronagraph in the world made to measure the solar wind’s temperature and velocity in addition to its density. It will aid scientists in deciphering the solar wind and forecasting space weather.

SEOUL — According to Yonhap News Agency, the Republic of Korea’s national space agency announced on Friday that it intends to deploy a solar coronagraph, which was built in collaboration with the United States, to the International Space Station (ISS) in order to study the solar wind and the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.

On Monday (US time), Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), a joint project between the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the ISS from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to KASA.

The coronagraph will dock with the ISS’s express freight carrier as part of a bilateral solar research collaboration, allowing it to view the corona for up to 55 minutes during each 90-minute Earth orbit.

According to KASA, CODEX is the first coronagraph in the world made to measure the solar wind’s temperature and velocity in addition to its density. It will enable scientists in better understanding the solar wind and forecasting space weather.

The solar wind, which influences weather in space, is a continuous flow of particles and magnetic fields emitted from the sun’s outermost atmosphere layer. (ANI/WAM)

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