BackForward Satellite: FY-3E 

Satellite details
Acronym FY-3E
Full name Feng-Yun 3E
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • 5th flight unit of the FY-3 series.
  • Main mission: operational meteorology.
  • Substantial contribution to ocean and ice monitoring, climate monitoring, atmospheric chemistry and space weather.
  • More details here:  https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/105/1/BAMS-D-22-0045.1.xml 
Mass at launch 2300 kg Dry mass 2250 kg
Power 2500 W
Data access link http://data.nsmc.org.cn/portalsite/default.aspx
Data access information
  • Real-time availability of HIRAS, ERM-2, GNOS, MERSI-2, MWHS-2, MWTS-2, OMS (limb+nadir), SES (IPM+SEM+WAI), SIM-2 and WindRAD by MTP.
  • Real-time availability of a selection of data by AHRPT.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 836 km
ECT 05:40 desc

 

Space agency CMA , NRSCC
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch 04 Jul 2021 EOL ≥2029
Last update: 2024-06-03
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 FY-3E

Acronym Full name
MWHS-2 Micro-Wave Humidity Sounder -2
SIM-2 Solar Irradiance Monitor - 2
WindRAD Wind Radar
SWS/SEM/HEPD Space Weather Suite / Space Environment Monitor / High Energy Particle Detector
SWS/SEM/IMS Space Weather Suite / Space Environment Monitor / Ionosphere Measurement Sensor
SWS/Tri-IPM Space Weather Suite - Triple-angle Ionospheric PhotoMeter
XEUVI Solar X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Imager
MWTS-3 Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder - 3
HIRAS-2 Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder - 2
MERSI-LL Medium Resolution Spectral Imager - Low-Light
SSIM Solar Spectral Irradiance Monitor
SWS/SEM/FGM Space Weather Suite / Space Environment Monitor / Flux Gate Magnetometer
GNOS-2 GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder - 2
Show instrument status and calibration
Satellite frequencies for Earth Observation, data transfer and platform communications and control
Earth observation MW frequencies
Service Sensing mode Frequency (GHz) Bandwidth (MHz) Polarisation Comments
MWTS-3 passive 50.3 GHz 180 MHz QV Window channel
MWHS-2 passive 89 GHz 1500 MHz QH Window channel
MWHS-2 passive 113 GHz - 124.75 GHz 0 MHz QV Oxygen band, 8 channels
MWHS-2 passive 166 GHz 1500 MHz QH Weak water vapour channel
MWHS-2 passive 175 GHz - 191.31 GHz 0 MHz QV Water vapour band, 5 channels
WindRad active 5 GHz - 5.3 GHz 0 MHz - C-band scatterometer
WindRad active 13 GHz - 13.265 GHz 0 MHz - Ku-band scatterometer
MWTS-3 passive 23.8 GHz 270 MHz QH Water vapour channel
MWTS-3 passive 31.4 GHz 180 MHz QH Window channel
MWTS-3 passive 51.76 GHz 400 MHz QV Oxygen band
MWTS-3 passive 53 GHz - 57.61 GHz 0 MHz QV Oxygen band for temperature sounding
Frequencies for scientific data acquisition and communication services at ground stations
Service Direction Frequency (MHz) Bandwidth (kHz) Polarisation D/A Data rate (kbps) or Baseband (kHz) Comments
MPT S-E 7821.5 MHz - 7898.5 MHz - D  
DPT S-E 6712.5 MHz - 9712.5 MHz - D