CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- PREFIRE
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Full Name
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Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment
aka PREFIRE
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Status
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Operational (nominal)
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Mission Agencies
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NASA , NASA
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Launch Date
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25 May 2024
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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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Apr 2025
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #s
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59881 (TLE), 59965 (TLE)
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International Designators
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2024-099A, 2024-108A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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95.22 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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540 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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PREFIRE seeks to reduce uncertainty in polar energy fluxes, the processes that influence them, and, with improved modeling, the societal implications of polar climate change. Twin cubesats with identical long wave spectrometers.
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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.
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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