| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
Aist-2T N1
Environmental Satellite Aist-2T N1
| ROSKOSMOS | Planned | 2025 | 2029 | Earth resources, environmental and disaster monitoring, cartography. | Avrora-T | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 400 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.1 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission sitedata access |
Aist-2T N2
Environmental Satellite Aist-2T N2
| ROSKOSMOS | Planned | 2025 | 2029 | Earth resources, environmental and disaster monitoring, cartography. | Avrora-T | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 400 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.1 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission sitedata access |
ALOS-2
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2
| JAXA | Operational (extended) | 24 May 2014 | Dec 2025 | Environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface and ocean monitoring. | CIRC, PALSAR-2, SPAISE2 (AIS) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 628 km
Period: 97 mins
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle: 14 days
LST: 12:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
ALOS-4
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4
| JAXA | Commissioning | 01 Jul 2024 | Jun 2031 | Environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface. | PALSAR-3, SPAISE3 (AIS) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 628 km
Period: 97 mins
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle: 14 days
LST: 12:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
ALTIUS
Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere (ALTIUS)
| ESA | Approved | Apr 2027 | Dec 2030 | Altius carries a high-resolution 2D imager that observes ozone from the side, at Earth's limb or atmospheric boundary, to monitor its distribution and evolution in the Earth’s atmosphere | ALTIUS Instrument | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 668 km
Period:
Inclination: 98.07 deg
Repeat cycle: 3 days
LST: Fixed between 10:00 – 14:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
AMAZONIA-1
Amazonia 1
| INPE | Operational (nominal) | 28 Feb 2021 | Dec 2025 | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land surface. | WFI (Amazonia-1) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 752 km
Period: 99.9 mins
Inclination: 98.4 deg
Repeat cycle: 26 days
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
AOS-PMM
Atmosphere Observing System - Precipitation Measuring Mission
| JAXA / CNES / NASA | Planned | 2030 | 2034 | 5-year nominal mission life, precipitation measurement, Doppler-derived estimates of convective vertical air motions, and, in tandem with AOS-Storm, time-rate-of-change information related to ice production and vertical mass flux | JAXA Ku-Band Doppler Radar, SAPHIR-NG | Type: Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Altitude: 430 km
Period:
Inclination: 55 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission site |
AOS-Sky
Atmosphere Observing System - Sky
| NASA / ECCC / USask / UQAM / CSA | Considered | 2031 | 2036 | 3-year nominal mission life, 5-year goal. Study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, storm dynamics, energy and water cycles. The mission comprises a spacecraft with Doppler radar, microwave radiometer, backscatter Lidar, Polarimeter, and Far-Infrared imaging radiometer instruments. | AOS-Sky Lidar, AOS-Sky Microwave Radiometer, AOS-Sky Polarimeter, AOS-Sky Radar, TICFIRE | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 450 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.2 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 13:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission site | data access |
Aqua
Aqua (formerly EOS PM-1)
| NASA / JAXA / INPE | Operational (extended) | 04 May 2002 | Sep 2026 | 6-year nominal mission life, currently in extended operations. Atmospheric dynamics / water and energy cycles, cloud formation, precipitation and radiative properties, air / sea fluxes of energy and moisture, sea ice extent and heat exchange with the atmosphere. The HSB instrument failed on the 5th of February 2003. | AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES, HSB, MODIS | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 705 km
Period: 98.8 mins
Inclination: 98.2 deg
Repeat cycle: 16 days
LST: 13:50
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site | data access |
Arctica-M N1
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctica-M N1
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Operational (nominal) | 28 Feb 2021 | Feb 2028 | Meteorology, oceanography, including ice cover monitoring, environmental climate and disaster monitoring in the Arctic region. | GGAK-VE, MSU-GS/VE | Type: Highly elliptical
Altitude: 720 km
Period:
Inclination: 63.4 deg
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |