| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
Aeolus
Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (Earth Explorer Core Mission)
| ESA | Operational (nominal) | 22 Aug 2018 | Dec 2023 | Will provide wind profile measurements for global 3D wind field products used for study of atmospheric dynamics, including global transport of energy, water, aerosols, and chemicals. | ALADIN | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 320 km
Period: 92.5 mins
Inclination: 97.01 deg
Repeat cycle: 7 days
LST: 18:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
AMAZONIA-1
Amazonia 1
| INPE | Operational (nominal) | 28 Feb 2021 | Feb 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 |
Arctica-M N1
Hydro-meteorological Satellite Arctica-M N1
| ROSKOSMOS / ROSHYDROMET | Operational (nominal) | 28 Feb 2021 | Feb 2028 | Meteorology, oceanography, including ice cover monitoring, enviromental climate and disaster monitoring in the Arctic region. | GGAK-VE, MSU-GS/VE | Type: Highly elliptical
Altitude:
Period: 720 mins
Inclination: 63.4 deg
Repeat cycle: 1 day
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
CARTOSAT-2E
Cartography Satellite - 2E
| ISRO | Operational (nominal) | 23 Jun 2017 | Dec 2023 | 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 | Nov 2024 | 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 | Mar 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: |
CBERS-4A
China Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - 4
| INPE / CRESDA | Operational (nominal) | 20 Dec 2019 | Dec 2024 | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land surface. | DCS, MUX (CBERS-4A), WFI (CBERS-4A), WPM | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 629 km
Period: 97.3 mins
Inclination: 97.9 deg
Repeat cycle: 31 days
LST: 10:30
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
CFOSAT
Chinese-French Oceanic SATellite
| CNES / CNSA | Operational (nominal) | 29 Oct 2018 | Oct 2023 | 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: |
COSMIC-2 FM1
COSMIC-2 FM1
| NOAA / NSPO / UCAR | Operational (nominal) | 25 Jun 2019 | Jan 2026 | This is a radio occultation mission supporting meteorology and ionosphere & climate measurements. 6-satellite constellation (equatorial).
| IVM, RF Beacon, TGRS | Type:
Altitude: 520 km
Period:
Inclination: 24 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
COSMIC-2 FM2
COSMIC-2 FM2
| NOAA / UCAR | Operational (nominal) | 25 Jun 2019 | Jan 2026 | This is a radio occultation mission supporting meteorology and ionosphere & climate measurements. 6-satellite constellation (equatorial).
| IVM, RF Beacon, TGRS | Type:
Altitude: 520 km
Period:
Inclination: 24 deg
Repeat cycle:
LST:
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Ascending
Links: mission site |
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