CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- WEOS
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Full Name
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Whale Ecology Observation Satellite
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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Chiba Institute of Technology , JAXA
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Launch Date
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14 Dec 2002
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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14 Dec 2007
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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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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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101 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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98.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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793 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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WEOS (Kanta-kun, in Japanese) is a data collection satellite, a low-cost mission designed, built and operated by students of the Chiba Institute of Technology (advisor and PI: Tomonao Hayashi), Chiba, Japan. The overall objective of WEOS is to collect signals sent from probes attached to whales in the oceanic region of Japan to study the behavior of whales (tracking of whale migration routes in the Pacific Ocean). The objectives in the total design of the system included:
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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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