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It has a design life of 15 years with 8 years of operational life. Power is supplied by a single gallium arsenide solar panel, which provides up to 2.6 kilowatts of power. The main instrument aboard Himawari 9 is a 16 channel multispectral imager to capture visible light and infrared images of the Asian-Pacific region. [6]
GOES-9 (Pacific GOES) [2] 23 May 1995 14 Jun 2007 Atlas I (AC-77) Cape Canaveral MTSAT-1R (Himawari 6) 26 Feb 2005 4 Dec 2015 H-IIA (F7) Tanegashima MTSAT-2 (Himawari 7) 18 Feb 2006 10 Mar 2017 H-IIA (F9) Tanegashima Himawari 8: 7 Oct 2014 Stand-by H-IIA (F25) Tanegashima Himawari 9: 2 Nov 2016 Operational H-IIA (F31) Tanegashima Himawari 10 ...
MTSAT-1 Himawari 6. Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) were a series of weather and aviation control satellites. They were replaced by Himawari 8 on 7 July 2015. They were geostationary satellites owned and operated by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), and provide coverage for the hemisphere centred ...
(Test Flight 2) 28 August 1994 07:50 H-II Tanegashima, LA-Y1: ETS-VI (Engineering Test Satellite-VI) GEO: Success Kiku 6 TF3 (Test Flight 3) 18 March 1995 08:01 H-II Tanegashima, LA-Y1: Geostationary Meteorological Satellite-5 (GMS-5) / Space Flyer Unit (SFU) GEO / LEO: Success Himawari 5: F4 17 August 1996 01:53 H-II Tanegashima, LA-Y1
Himawari 8; Himawari 9; M. Multi-Functional Transport Satellite This page was last edited on 19 March 2024, at 13:17 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric with assistance from Boeing , and is the first of two similar satellites to be based on the DS2000 satellite bus . [ 3 ]
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The strongest system this year so far is Cyclone Vince, which attained a minimum barometric pressure of 923 hPa (27.26 inHg), Cyclone Dikeledi is the deadliest system this year so far, causing at least 9 deaths. However, no storm has been determined as the costliest yet.