Meteor-3 N5 Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - Meteor-3 N5 -

Full Name

Meteor-3 N5

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

ROSHYDROMET , ROSKOSMOS

Launch Date

15 Aug 1991

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

31 Dec 2002

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

21655 (TLE)

International Designator

1991-056A

Orbit Type

Inclined, non-sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

109 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

82.5 deg

Orbit Altitude

1200 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Currently limited operation (only MR-900B instrument is working). Hydrometeorology, climatology, land surface, physical oceanography, heliogeophysics, data collection.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	174-K
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	MR-2000M1
	Cloud particle properties and profile	MR-2000M1
	Ozone	174-K, SFM-2, TOMS
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	TOMS
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	174-K
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	MR-2000M1, MR-900B
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	MR-2000M1, MR-900B

Mission Instruments

174-K - Temperature and Humidity Profiler

BUFS-2 - Backscatter spectrometer/2

Chaika - Scanning IR radiometer

MR-2000M1 - Scanning visible radiometer

MR-900B - Scanning visual band telephotometer

RMK-2 - Radiation Measurement Complex

SFM-2 - UV limb spectrometer

TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

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