NOAA-10 Mission

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, Volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis.

Mission Summary

Full Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 10
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
17 Sep 1986
Mission Links
EOL Date
30 Aug 2001
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Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
101.1 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.6 deg
Orbit Altitude
804 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
4:38
Repeat Cycle
0.5 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

A-DCS3 - Argos Advanced Data Collection System3
Argos - Argos
AVHRR/1 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer /1
ERBE - Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
HIRS/2 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2
MSU - Microwave Sounding Unit
NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA
S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SBUV/2 - Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2
SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor
TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU) - TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAtmospheric Humidity Fields HIRS/2, TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU)
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature HIRS/2, TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU)
Liquid water and precipitation rate MSU
Ozone HIRS/2, SBUV/2
Radiation budget ERBE, HIRS/2, SBUV/2, TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU)
Trace gases (excluding ozone) HIRS/2, TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU)
Atmospheric Temperature Fields HIRS/2, MSU, TOVS (HIRS/2 + MSU + SSU)
LandSurface temperature (land) HIRS/2
OceanSurface temperature (ocean) AVHRR/1

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NOAA POES and METOP Local Area Coverage Imagery
Jan-2019
This collection is composed of AVHRR Level 1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed from the NOAA POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of Dundee and University of Bern ground stations and from the ESA and University of Bern data historical archive. The data collection covers Europe and the neighbouring regions in the period of 1 January 1981 to 31 December 2019. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more

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