DWSS Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - DWSS -

Full Name

Defense Weather Satellite System

Status

Cancelled

Mission Agencies

USAF

Launch Date

Mission Links

EOL Date

EO Portal Info

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International Designator

Orbit Type

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Originally scheduled for launch 2018, replaced with the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M)

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	VIIRS
	Atmospheric Winds	VIIRS
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	VIIRS
	Cloud particle properties and profile	VIIRS
	Radiation budget	VIIRS
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	VIIRS
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SEM-N
Land	Albedo and reflectance	VIIRS
	Soil moisture	VIIRS
	Vegetation	VIIRS
	Surface temperature (land)	VIIRS
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	VIIRS
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	VIIRS
	Surface temperature (ocean)	VIIRS
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	VIIRS
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	VIIRS
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	VIIRS

Mission Instruments

SEM-N - Space Environment Monitor - NPOESS

VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite

OpenSearch Datasets

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