ESA Future Missions Mission

Objectives and Applications

Physical Oceanography, land surface, ice and snow, atmospheric dynamics/water and energy cycles.

Mission Summary

Full Name
ESA Future Missions
Mission Status
Cancelled
Mission Agencies
ESA
Launch Date
01 Jan 2008
Mission Links
EOL Date
01 Jan 2018
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
TBD
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

ATLID - ATmospheric LIDar
CPR (EarthCARE) - Cloud Profiling Radar (EarthCARE)
MASTER - MASTER
SPECTRA - Surface Processes and Ecosystem Changes Through Response Analysis

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols ATLID
Atmospheric Humidity Fields MASTER, SPECTRA
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature ATLID, CPR (EarthCARE)
Cloud particle properties and profile ATLID, CPR (EarthCARE), SPECTRA
Liquid water and precipitation rate CPR (EarthCARE)
Ozone MASTER
Radiation budget SPECTRA
Trace gases (excluding ozone) MASTER
Atmospheric Temperature Fields ATLID, CPR (EarthCARE)
LandAlbedo and reflectance SPECTRA
Landscape topography SPECTRA
Vegetation SPECTRA
Surface temperature (land) SPECTRA
Multi-purpose imagery (land) SPECTRA
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) SPECTRA

OpenSearch Datasets

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