BackForward Satellite: AOS-PMM 

Satellite details
Acronym AOS-PMM
Full name Atmosphere Observing System - Precipitation Measuring Mission
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • Main mission research meteorology
  • Main mission climate research
  • Precipitation measurement, Doppler-derived estimates of convective vertical air motions, and, in tandem with AOS-C2OMODO, time-rate-of-change information related to ice production and vertical mass flux
Mass at launch Dry mass
Power
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Data access information
Orbit Drifting orbit Altitude 430 km
Inclination 55 °

 

Space agency JAXA , CNES, NASA
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch Mar 2029 EOL ≥2034
Last update: 2025-10-13
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-PMM

Acronym Full name
C²OMODO-R C²OMODO (Convective Core Observations through MicrOwave Derivatives in the trOpics) Microwave Radiometer (formerly, SAPHIR-NG)
KuDPR Ku-band Doppler Precipitation Radar
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