Objectives and Applications
Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution.
Full Name
FY-4E Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
aka FY-4 O/E
Mission Status
Planned
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
2027
Mission Links
EOL Date
2034
Orbit Type
Geostationary
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude
36000 km
Orbit Longitude
-105 deg
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
AGRI - Advanced Geosynchronous Radiation Imager |
| GIIRS - Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder |
| LMI - Lightning Mapping Imager |
| SEP - Space Environment Monitoring Instrument Package |
| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Atmospheric Humidity Fields | GIIRS |
| Atmospheric Winds | AGRI |
| Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | AGRI |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | LMI |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | GIIRS |
| Lightning Detection | LMI |
| Gravity and Magnetic Fields | Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements | SEP |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | AGRI |
| Surface temperature (land) | AGRI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | AGRI |
| Ocean | Ocean surface winds | AGRI |
| Surface temperature (ocean) | AGRI |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | AGRI |
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