CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GFZ-1
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Full Name
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GeoForschungsZentrum-1 Geodesy Satellite
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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GFZ
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Launch Date
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19 Apr 1995
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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23 Jul 1999
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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92.3 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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N/A
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Orbit Inclination
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51.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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383 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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GFZ-1 is a German geodesy mission of GFZ Potsdam, a passive microsatellite with the objective to improve our knowledge of the Earth's gravity field (to determine variations in the rotational characteristics of the Earth and to measurement changes in the Earth's gravity field).
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 1  )
CDDIS_SLR_predictions
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