Satellite
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Launch Date
|
Designed Life
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Completion Date
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Launch Site
|
Agency
|
Mission description
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ACRIMSAT
|
20 December 1999
|
|
30 July 2014
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Study Total Solar Irradiance
|
ADEOS I
|
17 August 1996
|
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30 June 1997
|
Tanegashima
|
NASA / NASDA
|
Study wind scattering and map the ozone layer
|
ADEOS II (Midori II)
|
14 December 2002
|
|
24 October 2003
|
Tanegashima |
JAXA / NASA
|
Monitor the water and energy cycle as a part of the global climate system
|
ATS-3
|
7 December 1966
|
|
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Cape Canaveral
|
NASA
|
Weather observation
|
ATLAS-1
|
24 March 1992
|
|
2 April 1992
|
|
NASA
|
Unravel man's impact on the environment
|
CHAMP
|
15 July 2000
|
5 years
|
19 September 2010
|
Plesetsk 132/1
|
GFZ
|
Atmospheric and ionospheric research
|
CRRES
|
25 July 1990
|
3 years
|
12 October 1991
|
Cape Canaveral
|
NASA
|
Investigate fields, plasmas, and energetic particles inside the magnetosphere
|
DE 1 and DE 2
|
3 August 1981
|
|
28 February 1991 and 19 February 1983
|
Vandenberg
|
NASA
|
Investigate the interactions between plasmas in the magnetosphere and those in the ionosphere
|
ERBS
|
5 October 1984
|
2 years
|
14 October 2005
|
Cape Canaveral
|
NASA
|
Study the Earth's radiation budget and stratospheric aerosol and gases
|
ESSA program
|
1966 - 1969
|
|
|
Cape Canaveral
|
ESSA / NASA
|
Provide cloud-cover photography
|
ERS-1
|
17 July 1991
|
|
March 2000
|
Kourou
|
ESA
|
Measure wind speed and direction and ocean wave parameters
|
SeaWiFS
|
1 August 1997
|
1 August 2012
|
11 December 2010
|
Vandenberg |
GeoEye / NASA
|
Provide quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties
|
TRMM
|
27 November 1997
|
27 November 2000
|
9 April 2015
|
Tanegashima |
NASA / JAXA
|
Monitor and study tropical rainfall
|
Landsat 7
|
15 April 1999
|
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Supply the world with global land surface images
|
QuikSCAT
|
19 June 1999
|
19 June 2002
|
19 November 2009
|
Vandenberg |
NASA / JPL
|
Acquire global radar cross-sections and near-surface vector winds
|
Terra (EOS-AM)
|
18 December 1999
|
18 December 2005
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Provide global data on the state of the atmosphere, land, and oceans
|
NMP/EO-1
|
21 November 2000
|
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Demonstrate new technologies and strategies for improved Earth observations
|
Jason 1
|
7 December 2001
|
|
1 July 2013
|
Vandenberg |
NASA / CNES
|
Provide information on ocean surface current velocity and heights
|
Meteor 3M-1/Sage IIITemplate:Pad
|
10 December 2001
|
|
6 March 2006
|
Baikonur |
Roscosmos
|
Provide accurate, long-term measurements of ozone, aerosols, water vapor, and other key parameters of Earth's atmosphere
|
GRACE
|
17 March 2002
|
|
Active
|
Plesetsk Cosmodrome |
NASA / DLR
|
Measure Earth's mean and time-variable gravity field
|
Aqua
|
4 May 2002
|
4 May 2008
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Collect water information in the Earth system
|
ICESat
|
12 January 2003
|
|
14 August 2010
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, and land topography and vegetation characteristics
|
SORCE
|
25 January 2003
|
|
Active
|
Cape Canaveral |
NASA
|
Improve our understanding of the Sun
|
Aura
|
15 July 2004
|
15 July 2010
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Investigate questions about ozone trends, air-quality changes and their linkage to climate change
|
CloudSat
|
28 April 2006
|
28 April 2009
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Provide the first direct, global survey of the vertical structure and overlap of cloud systems and their liquid and ice-water contents
|
CALIPSO
|
28 April 2006
|
|
Active
|
Vandenberg
|
NASA / CNES
|
Improve understanding of the role aerosols and clouds play in regulating the Earth’s climate
|
SMAP
|
31 January 2015
|
31 May 2018
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Measure surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state
|
OCO-2
|
2 July 2014
|
2 July 2019
|
Active
|
Vandenberg |
NASA
|
Provide space-based global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide
|
Aquarius
|
10 June 2011
|
|
17 June 2015 [1]
|
Vandenberg |
NASA / CONAE
|
Map the spatial and temporal variations of sea surface salinity
|
Landsat 8
|
11 February 2013
|
11 February 2018
|
Active
|
Vandenberg
|
NASA / USGS
|
Supply the world with global land surface images
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