DEMETER Mission

Objectives and Applications

Micro-satellite to study; ionospheric disturbances related to seismic activity, ionospheric disturbances related to human activity, pre and post-seismic effects in the ionosphere, global information on the Earth's electromagnetic environment.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Detection of Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
29 Jun 2004
Mission Links
EOL Date
10 Dec 2010
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
TBD
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
800 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

IAP - Instrument for plasma analysis
ICE - Instrument for Electric Field
IDP - Instrument For Plasma Detection
IMSC - Instrument Search Coil Magnetometer
ISL - Langmuir probes

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements IMSC

OpenSearch Datasets

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