NPOESS-6 Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - NPOESS-6 -

Full Name

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 4

Status

Cancelled

Mission Agencies

NOAA

Launch Date

09 May 2019

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

01 May 2024

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

101 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.75 deg

Orbit Altitude

833 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

17:30

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Meteorological, climatic, terrestrial, oceanographic, and solar-geophysical applications; global and regional environmental monitoring, search and rescue, data collection.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	VIIRS
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	CMIS
	Atmospheric Winds	VIIRS
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	VIIRS
	Cloud particle properties and profile	CMIS, VIIRS
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	CMIS
	Radiation budget	TSIS-1/SIM, VIIRS
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	CMIS, VIIRS
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SESS
Land	Albedo and reflectance	VIIRS
	Soil moisture	CMIS, VIIRS
	Vegetation	VIIRS
	Surface temperature (land)	CMIS, VIIRS
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	VIIRS
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	VIIRS
	Ocean surface winds	CMIS
	Surface temperature (ocean)	CMIS, VIIRS
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	VIIRS
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	CMIS, VIIRS
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	CMIS, VIIRS

Mission Instruments

A-DCS4 - A-DCS4

CMIS - Conical-scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder

S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking

SARSAT - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking

SESS - Space Environmental Sensor Suite

TSIS-1/SIM - Total Solar and Spectral Irradiance Sensor 1 - Spectral Irradiance Monitor

VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite

OpenSearch Datasets

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