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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- UARS
-
Full Name
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NASA
Launch Date
15 Sep 1991
Mission Links
mission site
EOL Date
14 Dec 2005
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #
21701
(
TLE
)
International Designator
1991-063B
Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
95.9 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
57 deg
Orbit Altitude
585 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications
Atmospheric chemistry (middle to upper atmosphere), atmospheric dynamics/water and energy cycles. HALOE, HRDI, MLS, PEM instruments still functioning. End date TBD.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
HALOE
,
MLS
Atmospheric Winds
HRDI
Ozone
HALOE
,
MLS
Radiation budget
PEM
,
SOLSTICE
,
SUSIM (UARS)
Trace gases (excluding ozone)
HALOE
,
HRDI
,
MLS
Atmospheric Temperature Fields
HALOE
,
HRDI
,
MLS
,
WINDII
Mission Instruments
ACRIM II - Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
CLAES - Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer instrument
HALOE - Halogen Occultation Experiment
HRDI - High Resolution Doppler Imager
ISAMS - Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder instrument
MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder (UARS)
PEM - Particle Environment Monitor
SOLSTICE - SOLar STellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
SUSIM (UARS) - Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance Monitor
WINDII - WINDII
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Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) II Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) aboard UARS in N ...
Earth System Science Workbench: Global Surface Radiation Data Products
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 1.1
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.0
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.1
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.2
Global Space-based Stratospheric Aerosol Climatology Version 2.21
GOZCARDS Merged Hydrogen Chloride 1 month L3 10 degree Zonal Means on a Vertical Pressure Grid V1 (G ...
GOZCARDS Merged Nitric Acid 1 month L3 10 degree Zonal Means on a Vertical Pressure Grid V1 (GozMmlp ...
GOZCARDS Merged Ozone 1 month L3 10 degree Zonal Means on a Vertical Pressure Grid V1 (GozMmlpO3) at ...
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