CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- OPAL (Atmospheric)
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Full Name
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Oxygen Photometry of the Atmospheric Limb
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Status
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Cancelled
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Mission Agencies
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USU
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Launch Date
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01 Sep 2016
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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02 Sep 2016
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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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Orbit Period
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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51.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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370 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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The OPAL mission is designed to understand the thermospheric temperature signals of the dynamic solar, geomagnetic, and internal atmospheric forcing. This mission can be addressed by remote sensing of the altitude temperature from the atmospheric limb from a mid- to high-inclination orbit (>50º), thus providing daytime observations of the mid- and low-latitudes.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
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