| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
Arctic-M N1
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctic-M N1
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Planned | 2019 | 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 |
Arctic-M N2
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctic-M N2
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Planned | 2021 | 2026 | 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 | 2023 | 2028 | 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 | 2027 | 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: |
CARBONITE-2
CARBONITE-2
| UKSA | Planned | 2017 | 2018 | Optical imaging in a technology demonstration mission. Second satellite in the CARBONITE series of technology demonstration missions designed to demonstrate rapid-build techniques and to test COTS components and new avionics in orbit. | CARBONITE-2 Imager | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude:
Period:
Inclination:
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30 (TBC)
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
CBERS-4A
China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4
| INPE / CRESDA | Planned | 2018 | 2023 | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land surface. | DCS, IRS, MUX (CBERS-4A), WFI (CBERS-4A), WPM | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 629 km
Period: 97.3 mins
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle: 31 days
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
CLARREO Pathfinder-on-ISS
International Space Station/Climate Absolute Radiance & Reflectivity Observatory Pathfinder
| NASA | Planned | 2021 | 2022 | 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 |
FLEX
Fluorescence Explorer
| ESA | Planned | 2022 | 2025 | Mapping vegetation fluorescence to quantify photosynthetic activity. | FLORIS | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 815 km
Period:
Inclination:
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
FY-2H
FY-2H Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2018 | 2020 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
Period:
Inclination:
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-3E
FY-3E Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2018 | 2021 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | ASI, ERM-2, GNOS, IMWAS, MERSI-2, MIRAS, MWHS-2, MWTS-2, OMS, SES, SIM, SIM-2, WindRAD | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 830 km
Period: 101 mins
Inclination: 98.753 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
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