ADEOS-2
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Mission Photos:
Courtesy of JAXA
Mission Objectives:
The ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite 2 (ADEOS-2) Mission is a joint international cooperative program like its successor, ADEOS-1. With a three-year operational life, the mission will support the monitoring of global environmental changes while continuing and furthering the broad-ranging observation technology created by ADEOS-1.
The three scientific goals are:
- To regularly monitor the water and energy cycle as a part of the global climate system.
- To quantitatively estimate the biomass and fundamental productivity as part of the carbon cycle, which plays an important role for global warming.
- To detect the signal of long term climate change as a result of continuous observations succeeded from ADEOS-1.
Mission Instrumentation:
ADEOS-2 has the following instrumentation onboard:
- Advanced microwave scanning radiometer
- Global imager
- Improved limb atmospheric spectrometer
- Seawinds
- Polarization and directionality of earth reflectance
- Retroreflector array
Mission Parameters:
| Sponsor: | (JAXA) Japan |
| Expected Life: | 3 years |
| Primary Applications: | environmental monitoring |
| Primary SLR Applications: | precision orbit determination |
| COSPAR ID: | 0205601 |
| SIC Code: | 1556 |
| Satellite Catalog (NORAD) Number: | 27597 |
| Launch Date: | 14 December 2002 |
| NP Bin Size: | 15 seconds |
| RRA Diameter: | 16 cm |
| RRA Shape: | hemispherical |
| Reflectors: | 9 corner cubes |
| Orbit: | circular, sun-synchronous sub-recurrent |
| Inclination: | 98.6 degrees |
| Eccentricity: | 0.001 |
| Perigee: | 803 km |
| Period: | 101 minutes |
| Weight: | 1200 kg |
Additional Information:
Web sites:
Publications:
- Sawabe, M., and Kashimoto, M., "ADEOS-II precise orbit determinations with GPS and SLR", ADV SPACE RES 23: (4) 763-766 1999.
