NOAA-13 Mission

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, Volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis.

Mission Summary

Full Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 13
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA
Launch Date
09 Aug 1993
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
09 Aug 1993
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
850 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
22739 (TLE)
International Designator
1993-050A

Mission Instruments

A-DCS3 - Argos Advanced Data Collection System3
AVHRR/2 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2
EHIC - Energetic Heavy Ion Composition Experiment
HIRS/2 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2
MAXIE - Magnetospheric Atmospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment
MSU - Microwave Sounding Unit
NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA
S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SBUV/2 - Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2
SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor
SSU - Stratospheric Sounding Unit

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields HIRS/2
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature AVHRR/2, HIRS/2
Liquid water and precipitation rate MSU
Ozone HIRS/2, SBUV/2
Radiation budget AVHRR/2, HIRS/2, SBUV/2
Trace gases (excluding ozone) HIRS/2
Atmospheric Temperature Fields HIRS/2, MSU, SSU
LandVegetation AVHRR/2
Surface temperature (land) HIRS/2
Multi-purpose imagery (land) AVHRR/2
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) AVHRR/2
Snow & IceSnow cover, edge and depth AVHRR/2

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