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Himawari 9 is a Japanese weather satellite, the 9th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric , and is the second of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 bus.
The Himawari (ひまわり, “sunflower”) geostationary satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), support weather forecasting, tropical cyclone tracking, and meteorology research.
Frames captured by the Advanced Himawari Imager aboard the Himawari 9 satellite, also visible in the animation, is Tropical Storm Sanvu, the first official named system of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season.
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 ]
Meteosat-9 was launched to complement Meteosat-8 in 2005, with the second pair consisting of Meteosat-10 and Meteosat-11 launched in 2012 and 2015, respectively. In 2006, the first European low-Earth orbit operational meteorological satellite, Metop -A was launched into a Sun-synchronous orbit at 817 km altitude by a Soyuz launcher from ...
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 ...
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 ...
BlackSky Pathfinder-1 is an Earth imaging satellite. [3] The satellite is equipped with payloads from Harris Corporation designed to image an area approximately 4.4 × 6.6 km (2.7 × 4.1 mi).