| Mission | Agency | Status | Launch date | EOL date | Applications | Instruments | Orbit details & URL |
AOS-PMM
Atmosphere Observing System - Precipitation Measuring Mission
| JAXA / CNES / NASA | Planned | 2030 | 2035 | 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
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Asc/desc: TBD
Links: mission site |
EPS-Sterna
EUMETSAT Polar System - Sterna
| EUMETSAT / ESA | Planned | 2029 | 2042 | EPS-Sterna is a EUMETSAT constellation of meteorological microsatellites providing passive microwave soundings for global atmospheric temperature temperature and humidity profiles soundings in all weather conditions, with frequent revisits over high latitude regions. 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 several replenishments of each orbit plane, a minimum mission lifetime for the full system of 13 years will be achieved.
AWS is the protoflight of the constellation, the latter was developed by ESA, the satellite of the EPS-Sterna will be recurrent models of the prototype (with minor modifications).
Local Solar time for AWS is 22:30 (TBC) 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 |
FY-3I
FY-3 Rainfall Mission 2
| NSMC-CMA / CNSA | Planned | 2027 | 2033 | Rainfall measurement. | GNOS-2, MERSI-RM, MWRI-RM, NAMS, PMR | Type: Sun-synchronous
Altitude: 407 km
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Links: mission site | data access |
FY-3J
FY-3J Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / CNSA | Planned | 2026 | 2034 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | ENAI, GNOS-2, HIRAS-2, MERSI-LL, MUSI, MWHS-2, MWTS-3, SEM (FY-3), SIM-3, SSIM, WindRAD, XEUVI | Type: Sun-synchronous
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LST: 10:00
Longitude (if geo):
Asc/desc: Descending
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4C
FY-4C Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / CNSA | Planned | 2025 | 2032 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | AGRI, GIIRS, LMI, MUSI, SUVI, SXUS | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
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Longitude (if geo): -105
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4D
FY-4D Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2026 | 2033 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | AGRI, GIIRS, LMI, SEMP, SUVI | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
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Longitude (if geo): -105
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4E
FY-4E Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2027 | 2034 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | AGRI, FGM, GIIRS, MUSI | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
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Longitude (if geo): -105
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4F
FY-4F Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2028 | 2037 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | AGRI, GIIRS, LMI, SFSI | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
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Longitude (if geo): -105
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4G
FY-4G Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / NRSCC | Planned | 2033 | 2040 | Meteorology and environmental monitoring; data collection and redistribution. | | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 36000 km
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Longitude (if geo): -105
Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |
FY-4M1
FY-4M1 Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
| NSMC-CMA / CNSA | Planned | 2025 | 2029 | Prototype of an FY-4 satellite equipped with a MW sounder for atmospheric temperature and humidity, and inferred precipitation rate.
Instrument description limited at present. | ENAI | Type: Geostationary
Altitude: 35786 km
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Asc/desc: N/A
Links: mission site | data access |