NPOESS-6 Mission

Objectives and Applications

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

Mission Summary

Full Name
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 4
Mission Status
Cancelled
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
09 May 2019
Mission Links
EOL Date
01 May 2024
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

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
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

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

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols 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 FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements SESS
LandAlbedo and reflectance VIIRS
Soil moisture CMIS, VIIRS
Vegetation VIIRS
Surface temperature (land) CMIS, VIIRS
Multi-purpose imagery (land) VIIRS
OceanOcean colour/biology VIIRS
Ocean surface winds CMIS
Surface temperature (ocean) CMIS, VIIRS
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) VIIRS
Snow & IceSnow cover, edge and depth CMIS, VIIRS
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness CMIS, VIIRS

OpenSearch Datasets

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