BackForward Satellite: AOS-HAWCSat 

Satellite details
Acronym AOS-HAWCSat
Full name Atmosphere Observing System - High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds Sat
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Satellite Description  
  • Main mission - research meteorology
  • Main mission - climate research
  • Canadian mission to support extreme weather prediction, climate modelling, and monitoring of disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, wildfires and extreme precipitation
Mass at launch Dry mass
Power
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Data access information
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 430 km
ECT 13:30 

 

Space agency NASA , CSA, JAXA
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch ≥2031 EOL ≥2036
Last update: 2023-11-02
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on AOS-HAWCSat

Acronym Full name
ALI Aerosol Limb Imager
SHOW Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water
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