FY-3G Satellite Mission Summary

Identifierfy-3gNamesFY-3 Rainfall Mission 1FY-3GAliasesfy-3rm-1 About identifiers

SeriesFY-3fy-3

Rainfall measurement.

Full Name

FY-3 Rainfall Mission 1
aka FY-3G, FY-3RM-1

Mission Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

NSMC-CMA, CNSA

Launch Date

16 Apr 2023

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Dec 2029

EO Portal Info

Orbit Type

Inclined, non-sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

92 minutes

Orbit Sense

Orbit Inclination

Orbit Altitude

407 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

NORAD Catalog #

56232

International Designator

2023-055A

GNOS-2 - GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder-2 fy-3g_gnos-2

HAOC - High Accuracy On-board Calibrator fy-3g_haoc

MERSI-RM - Medium Resolution Spectral Imager - Rainfall Measurement fy-3g_mersi-rm

MWRI-RM - Micro-Wave Radiation Imager for the Rainfall Mission fy-3g_mwri-rm

PMAI - Short-wave Infrared Polarized Multi-Angle Imager fy-3g_pmai

PMR - Precipitation Measurement Radar fy-3g_pmr-fy

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	PMAI
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	GNOS-2, MERSI-RM, MWRI-RM
	Atmospheric Winds	MWRI-RM
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	MERSI-RM
	Cloud particle properties and profile	MERSI-RM, PMR
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	GNOS-2
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	GNOS-2
Land	Albedo and reflectance	HAOC
	Soil moisture	MWRI-RM
	Vegetation	HAOC, MERSI-RM, PMAI
Ocean	Surface temperature (ocean)	MERSI-RM
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	MWRI-RM

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