| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
AISSat-4
AISSat-4
| NOSA | Operational (nominal) | 30 Mar 2026 | Mar 2032 | Reception of AIS signals | AIS | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 514 km
Period: 95 mins
Inclination: 97.5 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 1899-12-30T16:44:00.000Z
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: |
Aist-2T N1
Environmental Satellite Aist-2T N1
| ROSKOSMOS | Commissioning | 28 Dec 2025 | Dec 2030 | 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: |
Aist-2T N2
Environmental Satellite Aist-2T N2
| ROSKOSMOS | Commissioning | 28 Dec 2025 | Dec 2030 | 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: |
ALOS-2
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2
| JAXA | Operational (extended) | 24 May 2014 | Mar 2028 | 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 | Operational (nominal) | 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 |
ALTIUS
Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere (ALTIUS)
| ESA | Approved | Apr 2028 | Dec 2031 | 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 |
AMAZONIA-1
Amazonia 1
| INPE | Operational (extended) | 28 Feb 2021 | Dec 2026 | 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 |
Aqua
Aqua (formerly EOS PM-1)
| NASA / JAXA / INPE | Operational (extended) | 04 May 2002 | Sep 2027 | 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 |
Arctica-M N2
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctica-M N2
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Operational (nominal) | 16 Dec 2023 | Dec 2033 | 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 |