THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION SUMMARY

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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - FORTE -

Full Name

Fast On-Orbit Recording of Transient Events

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

LANL

Launch Date

29 Aug 1997

Mission Links

EOL Date

29 Aug 2000

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

Orbit Type

Orbit Period

100 minutes

Orbit Sense

Orbit Inclination

70 deg

Orbit Altitude

815 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

The prime objective is the measurement of electromagnetic pulses (EMP), primarily due to lightning, within a noise environment dominated by continuous wave (CW) carriers, such as TV and FM stations. FORTE also conducts ionospheric physics experiments.

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