COSMIC-1 FM5 Mission

Identifiercosmic-1-fm5NamesCOSMIC-1 FM5Aliasesformosat-3-fm5 About identifiers
SeriesCOSMIC/FORMOSATcosmic-formosat

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, ionosphere and climate.

Mission Summary

Full Name
COSMIC-1 FM5
aka FORMOSAT-3 FM5
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NOAA, TASA, UCAR
Launch Date
14 Apr 2006
Mission Links
EOL Date
31 Dec 2018
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
100 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
72 deg
Orbit Altitude
800 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

GOX - Global Positioning Satellite Occultation Experiment (GOX) cosmic-1-fm5_gox
TIP - Tiny Ionospheric Photometer cosmic-1-fm5_tip

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields GOX
Atmospheric Temperature Fields GOX

OpenSearch Datasets

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