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.
Full Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 13
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
09 Aug 1993
Mission Links
EOL Date
09 Aug 1993
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
850 km
Orbit Longitude
NORAD Catalog #s
International Designators
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 |