THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - FY-3D -

Full Name

FY-3D Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite

Status

Operational (nominal)

Mission Agencies

NSMC-CMA , NRSCC

Launch Date

15 Nov 2017

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Dec 2023

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

43010 (TLE)

International Designator

2017-072A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

101 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.753 deg

Orbit Altitude

830 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

14:00

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	ASI, GNOS, HIRAS, MWHS-2, MWRI, MWTS-2
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	MWRI
	Cloud particle properties and profile	MWRI
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	MWRI
	Ozone	ASI, MWHS-2
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	GAS
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	ASI, GNOS, HIRAS, MWHS-2, MWRI, MWTS-2
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SES, SWS/SEM/HEPD, SWS/SEM/IMS , WAI
Land	Soil moisture	MWRI
	Vegetation	MERSI-2
	Surface temperature (land)	MWRI
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	MERSI-2
	Ocean surface winds	MWRI
	Surface temperature (ocean)	MWRI
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	MWRI
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	MWRI

Mission Instruments

ASI - Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

GAS - Greenhouse gases Absorption Spectrometer

GNOS - GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder

HIRAS - Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder

MERSI-2 - Improved Medium Resolution Spectral Imager

MWHS-2 - Improved MicroWave Humidity Sounder

MWRI - Micro-Wave Radiation Imager

MWTS-2 - Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder-2

SES - Space Environment Suite, improved SEM

SWS/SEM/HEPD - Space Weather Suite / Space Environment Monitor/ High Energy Particle Detector

SWS/SEM/IMS - Space Weather Suite / Space Environment Monitor / Ionosphere Measurement Sensor

WAI - Wide-field Auroral Imager

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