| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
Arctic-M N1
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctic-M N1
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Planned | 2017 | 2021 | Meteorology, oceanography, including ice cover monitoring, enviromental climate and disaster monitoring in the Arctic region. | GGAK-VE, MSU-GS/VE | Type: Highly elliptical
Altitude:
Period: 720 mins
Inclination: 63 deg
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
Arctic-M N2
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctic-M N2
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Planned | 2019 | 2023 | Meteorology, oceanography, including ice cover monitoring, enviromental climate and disaster monitoring in the Arctic region. | GGAK-VE, MSU-GS/VE | Type: Highly elliptical
Altitude:
Period: 720 mins
Inclination: 63 deg
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
Arctic-M N3
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctic-M N3
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Planned | 2020 | 2024 | Meteorology, oceanography, including ice cover monitoring, enviromental climate and disaster monitoring in the Arctic region. | GGAK-VE, MSU-GS/VE | Type: Highly elliptical
Altitude:
Period: 720 mins
Inclination: 63 deg
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
BIOMASS
BIOMASS
| ESA | Planned | 2021 | 2026 | Will provide global maps of forest biomass and height (at 200 m resolution) and forest disturbance (at 50 m resolution) every 6 months | P-Band SAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 660 km
Period: 102.6 mins
Inclination: 97.97 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 06:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: |
CARTOSAT-3
Cartography Satellite - 3
| ISRO | Planned | 2018 | 2023 | Suitable for cadastral and infrastructure mapping and analysis. | MX (Cartosat-3), PAN (Cartosat-3) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 450 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
CBERS-4A
China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4
| INPE / CRESDA | Planned | 2018 | 2021 | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land surface. | DCS, IRS, MUX (CBERS-4A), WFI (CBERS-4A), WPM | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude:
Period:
Inclination:
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
CLARREO Pathfinder-on-ISS
International Space Station/Climate Absolute Radiance & Reflectivity Observatory Pathfinder
| NASA | Planned | 2020 | 2021 | 1 year nominal mission. The goal of the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission is to improve our understanding of climate change by providing high accuracy measurements of the change in key climate variables over decadal timescales. CLARREO Pathfinder is a technical demonstration on the ISS and a major step in reducing the cost and technical risk for these high accuracy measurements. | CLARREO Pathfinder Reflected Solar (hyperspectral | Type: Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Altitude: 425 km
Period: 90 mins
Inclination: 51 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
COSMIC-2A (Equatorial)
COSMIC-2A (Equatorial)
| NOAA / NSPO / UCAR | Planned | 2017 | 2022 | This is a radio occultation mission supporting meteorology and ionosphere & climate measurements. The 12-satellite COSMIC-2A/2B constellation (6 equatorial and 6 polar) will produce over 4 times the daily total of occultation events as COSMIC-1 (3000 versus 12,000). This provides the capability to reconstruct the 3D ionospheric electron density structures for ionospheric space weather monitoring within a dramatically short data accumulation period. TGRS will receive signals from GPS, Galileo, and Glonass.
| IVM, RF Beacon, TGRS | Type:
Altitude: 520 km
Period:
Inclination: 24 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
COSMIC-2B (Polar)
COSMIC-2B (Polar)
| NOAA / UCAR | Planned | 2018 | 2023 | This is a radio occultation mission supporting meteorology and ionosphere & climate measurements. The 12-satellite COSMIC-2A/2B constellation (6 equatorial and 6 polar) will produce over 4 times the daily total of occultation events as COSMIC-1 (3000 versus 12,000). This provides the capability to reconstruct the 3D ionospheric electron density structures for ionospheric space weather monitoring within a dramatically short data accumulation period. TGRS will receive signals from GPS, Galileo, and Glonass. COSMIC-2B will be a ride-share mission; the listed orbital parameters are desired and TBC.
| TGRS | Type:
Altitude: 720 km
Period:
Inclination: 72 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission site |
DESIS-on-ISS
DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer for MUSES
| DLR | Planned | 2017 | 2019 | DESIS detects changes in the land surface, oceans and atmosphere; it will contribute to the development of effective measures to protect the environment and climate and allows scientists to detect changes in ecosystems and to make statements on the condition of forests and agricultural land. Among other things, its purpose is to secure and improve the global cultivation of food. | DESIS | Type: Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Altitude: 407 km
Period: 93 mins
Inclination: 51.6 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
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