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Meteor-M

Meteor-M polar-orbiting satellites are designed to provide Roshydromet and other organizations with operative remote sensing data. Its data is used for:

  • weather analysis and forecasting on regional and global scale;
  • sea surface monitoring;
  • including ice and snow cover monitoring;
  • monitoring of atmosphere;
  • analysis of ionosphere and geomagnetic field conditions;
  • global climate monitoring;
  • ecological monitoring, etc.

The satellite has an opportunity to acquire data from ground data collection platforms using international frequency band (401,9 - 402,0 MHz) at 400 bit/sec rate.

Basic charcteristics:

Launch date and time: September 17, 2009 19:55 (Moscow time)

Spacecraft mass

~2.7 tons

Scientific payload mass

~1.2 tons

Expected lifetime

5 years

Data transmission formats

HRPT, LRPT and global data transmission format

Orbit parameters:

Orbit type

Sun-synchronous

Orbital altitude

830 km

Orbit period

101,45 minutes

Inclination

98,77°

Equator crossing time (descending node)

9:30

Equipment characteristics:

Equipment

Purpose

Spectral range

Swath width (km)

Spatial resolution

MSU-MR
multi-channel scanner for meteorological purposes

Global and regional cloudiness charts, SST, LST

6 channels::
0,5-0,7 mkm;
0,7-1,1 mkm;
1,6-1,8 mkm;
3,5-4,1 mkm;
10,5-11,5 mkm;
11,5-12,5 mkm.

>2800

1 km

KMSS
multi-channel Earth surface observation complex

Earth surface monitoring

6 channels:
0,370-0,450 mkm;
0,450-0,510 mkm;
0,535-0,575 mkm;
0,580-0,690 mkm;
0,630-0,680 mkm;
0,760-0,900 mkm.

450, 900

50м/100м

MTVZA
atmosphere temperature and humidity sounding module

Humidity and temperature profiles of the atmosphere, sea surface wind parameters

18.7-183.3 GHz (26 channels)

>2000

12 – 75km (depending on spectral channel)

BRLK
synthesized aperture radar

Ice cover monitoring

operational wavelength: 3,12 cm

>600

500m/1000m

GGAK-M
helio-geophysical complex

helio-geophysical complex Near-Earth space environment monitoring

Helio-geophysical complex is designed for analysis of the following parameters:
1) electron flux density with 0.03 - 15.0 megaelectron-volt energy;
2) proton flux density with 0.5 - 30.0 megaelectron-volt energy;
3) ions concentration in the upper atmosphere in range 1-20 atomic mass units