List of Earth observation satellites
Partial list of Earth observation satellites by series/program.
Commercial
- Disaster Monitoring Constellation (9 different satellites as of 2013, 5 operating)[1]
- Pléiades (2 operating satellites)
- EROS A & B
- FORMOSAT-2
- IKONOS
- QuickBird
- RapidEye (5 identical satellites as of 2012)
- SPOT (7 satellites, 3 operating)
- TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X
- COSMO-SkyMed (4 identical satellites as of 2012)
- WorldView-1
- WorldView-2
- WorldView-3
- GeoEye-1
Earth Observing System
- SROSS-2
- Aqua (EOS PM-1)
- Aura
- GRACE
- Jason 1
- Ocean Surface Topography Mission
- Orbview-2
- Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2
- Terra (EOS AM-1)
- TRMM
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
15 Satellites, 3 in operation
Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
10 Satellites 6 in operation.[2]
Joint Polar Satellite System
successor to planned National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program
Japan Meteorological Agency
- MTSAT-2 / Himawari-7[3] (Geostationary, 140 East) (backup)
- Himawari-8[4] (2014)
Future
- Himawari-9[4] (2016)
Historical
- GMS-1 / Himawari-1
- GMS-2 / Himawari-2
- GMS-3 / Himawari-3
- GMS-4 / Himawari-4
- GMS-5 / Himawari-5
- MTSAT-1 (launch failure, 1999)[5]
- MTSAT-1R / Himawari-6[6]
Landsat program
- Landsat 1 decommissioned
- Landsat 2 decommissioned
- Landsat 3 decommissioned
- Landsat 4 decommissioned
- Landsat 5 decommissioned
- Landsat 6 Failed to orbit
- Landsat 7 Operating
- Landsat 8 Operating
Misc
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)
Argentina Space Agency (CONAE)
Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
European Space Agency (ESA)
- Envisat
- ERS (1 & 2)
- CryoSat-2
- Sentinel 1
- Sentinel 2
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Megha-Tropiques October 2011
- Oceansat-2 23 September 2009
- IMS-1 28 April 2008
- Cartosat-2A 28 April 2008
- CARTOSAT-2 10 January 2007
- IRS P5 (CARTOSAT-1) 5 May 2005
- IRS P6 (Resourcesat 1) 17 October 2003
- IRS-P4 27 May 1999
- IRS-P3 21 March 1996[7]
- IRS-P2 15 October 1994[8]
- IRS P1 (also IE)(Crashed, due to launch failure of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, 20 September 1993)
- IRS-1D 29 September 1997[9]
- IRS-1C 28 December 1995[9]
- IRS-1B 29 August 1991[10]
- IRS-1A 17 March 1988[10]
JAXA (former NASDA)
- MOS-1 (Momo-1)
- MOS-1b (Momo-1b)
- JERS-1 (Fuyo-1)
- ADEOS (Midori)
- ADEOS II (Midori II)
- GOSAT (Ibuki)
- ALOS (Daichi) PALSAR, AVNIR-2 and PRISM
- ALOS-2 (Daichi-2) PALSAR-2
Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional (LAPAN INDONESIA)
NASA
- TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)
- TOPEX/Poseidon
- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
NOAA
Project Vanguard
National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Belarus
Nigeria
Pakistan's SUPARCO (Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission)
- Badr-B - December 2001.
- Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite - Scheduled for launch in 2014.
Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
- PHL-Microsat-1 - Scheduled for launch in 2016
Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
- Elektro–L
- Resurs-DK1
- Resurs-P No.1
- Resurs-P No.2
- Kanopus-V
- Meteor-M No.1
- Meteor-M No.2
Swedish National Space Board
Venezuelan Agency for Space Activities
EUMETSAT
11 Geostationary Weather Satellites, 5 in operation:
- Meteosat 7
- Meteosat 8
- Meteosat 9
- Meteosat 10
- Meteosat 11
2 Polar Orbiting Weather Satellites, all in operation:
- MetOp-A
- MetOp-B
RADARSAT series
South Korea
Thailand
Turkey
- Göktürk-2 (2012) (IMINT), Turkish Armed Forces- Intelligence[11]
- RASAT (2011), Mapping
- BILSAT-1 (2003-2006), was part of Disaster Monitoring Constellation Project
- Göktürk-1 (2013) (IMINT), Turkish Ministry of National Defence- Intelligence
- Göktürk-3- (IMINT), High Resolution Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation satellite- Turkish Ministry of National Defence- Intelligence
Weather
Meteor series
- Meteor 1 series
- Meteor 2 series
- Meteor 3 series
FY (Feng Yun) series
- FY-1 series
- FY-2 series
- FY-3A
References
- ↑ "Satellite Constellations from". SSTL.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20131216165725/http://www.oso.noaa.gov:80/poesstatus/. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Meteorological Satellites - Japan Meteorological Agency". Jma.go.jp. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- 1 2 http://web.archive.org/web/20131027082156/http://mscweb.kishou.go.jp:80/himawari89/index.html. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "MTSat 1, 1R (Himawari 6)". Space.skyrocket.de. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "Internal Waves in the Banda Sea « CIMSS Satellite Blog". Cimss.ssec.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ↑ "IRS-P3". Earthnet Online. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
- ↑ "IRS-P2". Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. VSSC. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- 1 2 "IRS-1C/1D (Indian Remote Sensing Satellites-1C/1D)". eoportal.com. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- 1 2 "IRS (Indian Remote Sensing Satellites) - Overview and early LEO Program of ISRO". eoportal.org. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
- ↑ "Göktürk-2". Tai.com.tr. 2012. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
External links
- Astrium Satellite Imagery
- Commission Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (Argentina Space Agency)
- Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
- EOportal directory
- Earth observation satellite list (World Meteorological Organization)
- (Space Images) - Earth mosaics - results of observation satellites activity - without payment
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