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Satellite details
Acronym Lemur-2
Full name Low Earth Multi-Use Receiver - 2
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • Constellation of nano-satellites (3U CubeSat), designed for maintaining up to 175 flight units.
  • Orbit heights ranging from 400 to 600 km, and various orbit inclinations, depending on the launch of opportunity.
  • Main missions: radio occultation sounding and ship tracking.
  • A subset of the satellites are equipped for GNSS-R observations
  • Three satellites are equipped with Polarimetric Radio Occultation (PRO) sensors to detect and characterize precipitation
  • Substantial contribution to Space weather.
Mass at launch 4.6 kg Dry mass
Power
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • Data commercially available from Spire Global Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 550 km

 

Space agency SPIRE
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
  • 119 flight units launched as of 03 September 2020.
  • 123 flight units launched as of 28 September 2020.
  • 125 flight units launched as of 03 October 2020.
  • 129 flight units launched as of 07 November 2020.
  • 137 flight units launched as of 24 January 2021.
  • 139 flight units launched as of 29 April 2021.
  • 145 flight units launched as of 30 June 2021.
  • 149 flight units launched as of 13 Jan 2022.
  • 156 flight units launched as of 25 May 2022.
  • 162 flight units launched as of 3 Jan 2023.
  • 164 flight units launched as of 15 April 2023.
  • 168 flight units launched as of 12 June 2023.
  • 170 flight units launched as of 18 July 2023.
  • Lemur-2 191,192 launched 16 August 2024.
  • Lemur-2 7 units launched 15 March 2025
Launch 28 Sep 2015 EOL ≥2040
Last update: 2025-03-17
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 Lemur-2

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