Solar X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (X-EUVI) loaded onto China's Fengyun-3E Satellite

Bo Chen1, Guang-Xing Ding2, Ling-Ping He2

  • 1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China. chenb@ciomp.ac.cn.

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