HJ-1C Satellite Mission Summary

Disaster and environment monitoring and forecasting. Small satellite constellation.

Full Name

Huan Jing-1C

Mission Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

CRESDA , CAST

Launch Date

19 Nov 2012

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

01 Mar 2023

EO Portal Info

Orbit Type

Inclined, non-sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

97.3 deg

Orbit Altitude

499 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

6:00

Repeat Cycle

31 days

NORAD Catalog #

38997

International Designator

2012-064A

SAR-S - Synthetic Aperture Radar (S-band)

S-Band SAR - S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Winds	SAR-S
Land	Albedo and reflectance	S-Band SAR
	Landscape topography	SAR-S, S-Band SAR
	Soil moisture	SAR-S
	Vegetation	SAR-S
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	SAR-S, S-Band SAR
Ocean	Ocean topography/currents	S-Band SAR
Snow & Ice	Ice sheet topography	SAR-S
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	SAR-S

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