BackForward Satellite: HAWCSat 

Satellite details
Acronym HAWCSat
Full name High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds Sat
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • Main mission - research meteorology
  • Main mission - climate research
  • Canadian satellite mission designed to improve our understanding of how clouds, water vapour, and tiny particles known as aerosols
Mass at launch Dry mass
Power
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Data access information
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 430 km
ECT 13:30 

 

Space agency CSA
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch ≥2032 EOL ≥2037
Last update: 2026-11-04
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 HAWCSat

Acronym Full name
ALI Aerosol Limb Imager
SHOW Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water
TICFIRE Thin Ice Cloud in the Far InfraREd.
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