THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION SUMMARY

THE CEOS DATABASE : Missions, Instruments and Measurements

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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - ACE -

Full Name

Aerosol Clouds and Ecosystem Mission

Status

Cancelled

Mission Agencies

NASA

Launch Date

03 Jan 2022

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

03 Apr 2023

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NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.2 deg

Orbit Altitude

650 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

13:00

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Phase-2 DS Mission, launch order unknown, 3-year nominal mission. Aerosol and cloud profiles for climate and water cycle; ocean colour for open ocean biogeochemistry.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	Lidar, Next Gen APS (ACE)
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	Cloud Radar, Lidar, OCI
	Cloud particle properties and profile	Cloud Radar
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	Cloud Radar
	Radiation budget	Cloud Radar, OCI
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	Cloud Radar
Land	Albedo and reflectance	OCI
	Vegetation	OCI
Ocean	Ocean colour/biology	Multi-band UV/VIS Spectrometer (ACE), OCI
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	OCI