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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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