| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
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 | 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 |
AWS
Arctic Weather Satellite
| ESA / EUMETSAT | Operational (nominal) | 16 Aug 2024 | Aug 2029 | AWS is the protoflight satellite for a planned constellation of meteorological microsatellites providing passive microwave soundings for global atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles soundings in all weather conditions, with frequent revisits over the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions. This constellation (called EPS-Sterna, which is named after the latin name Sterna for the Arctic Tern) will consist of 3 orbital planes with 2 satellites in each orbital plane. With a nominal satellite lifetime of 5 years, a first launch in 2029 and 2 replenishments of each orbit plane, a minimum mission lifetime for the full system of 13 years will be achieved. Local Solar time for AWS is 09:00 - 11:00 and EPS-Sterna Descending LST is 03:30, 07:30, 11:30. | MWR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 602 km
Period: 96.7 mins
Inclination: 97.79 deg
Repeat cycle: 9 days
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site | data access |
CARTOSAT-2E
Cartography Satellite - 2E
| ISRO | Operational (nominal) | 23 Jun 2017 | Dec 2025 | High precision large-scale cartographic mapping and thematic applications with MX data at 1:4000 scales. | HRMX, PAN (Cartosat-2E) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 500 km
Period: 97.4 mins
Inclination: 97.87 deg
Repeat cycle: 5 days
LST: 9:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: |
CARTOSAT-3
Cartography Satellite - 3
| ISRO | Operational (nominal) | 27 Nov 2019 | Dec 2025 | Suitable for cadastral and infrastructure mapping and analysis. | MX (Cartosat-3), PAN (Cartosat-3) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 450 km
Period:
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
CAS500-1
Compact Advanced Satellite 500 -1
| KARI / KAI / NGII | Operational (nominal) | 22 Mar 2021 | Dec 2025 | Cartography, land use and planning | High Resolution Optical Sensor (CAS500-1) | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 528 km
Period: 98.5 mins
Inclination: 98.1 deg
Repeat cycle: 28 days
LST: 10:50
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission sitedata access |
CFOSAT
Chinese-French Oceanic SATellite
| CNES / CNSA | Operational (nominal) | 29 Oct 2018 | Oct 2026 | The primary objective of CFOSAT is to monitor at the global scale the wind and waves at the ocean surface. | SCAT, SWIM | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 519 km
Period: 94.7 mins
Inclination: 97.5 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST: 7am
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: |
CSES
China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite
| CNSA / ASI | Operational (nominal) | 02 Feb 2018 | Dec 2025 | Monitoring of electromagnetic field and waves, plasma and particle perturbations of the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere; and the study of their correlations with the occurrence of seismic events. Study of solar-terrestrial interactions and phenomena of solar physics; study of cosmic ray solar modulation. | HEPD | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 507 km
Period: 94.7 mins
Inclination: 97.4 deg
Repeat cycle: 5 days
LST: 14:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site |
CSG-1
COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation - 1
| ASI / MoD (Italy) | Operational (nominal) | 18 Dec 2019 | Dec 2026 | Environmental monitoring, surveillance and risk management applications, environmental resources management, maritime management, earth topographic mapping, law enforcement, informative / science applications. | CSG SAR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 620 km
Period: 97.1 mins
Inclination: 97.8 deg
Repeat cycle: 16 days
LST: 6:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site | data access |