CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- CATS-on-ISS
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Full Name
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International Space Station/Cloud-Aerosol Transport System
aka ISS/CATS
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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NASA
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Launch Date
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10 Jan 2015
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Mission Links
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mission site | data access portal
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EOL Date
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30 Sep 2018
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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25544 (TLE)
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International Designator
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1998-067A
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Orbit Type
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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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90 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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51 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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425 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) is a lidar remote sensing instrument that will provide range-resolved profile measurements of atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS). CATS is intended to operate on-orbit for at least six months, and up to three years.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
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