CBERS-3 Satellite Mission Summary

Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land surface. Launch failure.

Full Name

China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 3
aka ZY-01-3

Mission Status

N/A

Mission Agencies

CRESDA , INPE

Launch Date

10 Dec 2013

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

10 Dec 2013

EO Portal Info

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

100.3 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

98.5 deg

Orbit Altitude

778 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:30

Repeat Cycle

26 days

NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

DCS - Data Collecting System Transponder

IRS - Thermal and Multispectral Scanner

MUX (CBERS-4) - Multispectral CCD Camera

PAN (CBERS-4) - Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager

WFI (CBERS-4) - Wide Field Imager (CBERS)

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	PAN (CBERS-4)
Land	Albedo and reflectance	IRS, MUX (CBERS-4), PAN (CBERS-4), WFI (CBERS-4)
	Vegetation	MUX (CBERS-4), PAN (CBERS-4), WFI (CBERS-4)
	Surface temperature (land)	IRS
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	IRS, MUX (CBERS-4), PAN (CBERS-4), WFI (CBERS-4)