Objectives and Applications
The long-term meteorological programme of the US Department of Defense (DoD) - with the objective to collect and disseminate worldwide cloud cover data on a daily basis.
Full Name
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-17
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
04 Nov 2006
Mission Links
EOL Date
Dec 2025
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
98.7 deg
Orbit Altitude
850 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
17:31
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
OLS - Operational Linescan System |
| SSI/ES-3 - Special Sensor Ionospheric Plasma Drift/Scintillation Meter |
| SSM - Special Sensor Magnetometer |
| SSM/IS - Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder |
| SSULI - Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager |
| SSUSI - Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Atmospheric Humidity Fields | SSM/IS |
| Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | OLS |
| Liquid water and precipitation rate | SSM/IS |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | OLS, SSM/IS |
| Gravity and Magnetic Fields | Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements | SSI/ES-3, SSM, SSULI, SSUSI |
| Land | Soil moisture | SSM/IS |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | OLS, SSM/IS |
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