HJ-1A Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - HJ-1A -

Full Name

Huan Jing-1A

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

CRESDA , CAST

Launch Date

06 Sep 2008

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

31 Dec 2018

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

33320 (TLE)

International Designator

2008-041A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

97.9 deg

Orbit Altitude

649 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:30

Repeat Cycle

31 days

Objectives and Applications

Disaster and environment monitoring and forecasting. Small satellite constellation.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	HSI (HJ-1A)
	Radiation budget	HSI (HJ-1A)
Land	Albedo and reflectance	CCD (HJ), HSI (HJ-1A)
	Vegetation	HSI (HJ-1A)
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	CCD (HJ), HSI (HJ-1A)
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	HSI (HJ-1A)
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	HSI (HJ-1A)
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	HSI (HJ-1A)
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	HSI (HJ-1A)

Mission Instruments

CCD (HJ) - CCD camera

HSI (HJ-1A) - Hyper Spectrum Imager

OpenSearch Datasets

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