The article collection “ASO-S Mission: Inflight Performance and First Results” has been completed and is now published in the journal Solar Physics. All articles are free to read from May 12 to June 30, 2025.
China’s first comprehensive solar physics mission, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was successfully launched on 9 October 2022. The mission focuses on exploring the connections between the solar magnetic field, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
This topical collection, along with other publications, provides an overview of ASO-S’s achievements over the first one and a half years, including mission validation, payload calibration, data flow description, analysis software demonstration, and numerous investigations based on ASO-S observed data. We hope this collection will be valuable for researchers seeking to understand the mission or utilize the data.