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Fengyun 2
Fengyun

is

Meteorological

Chinas
Satellite

Program, consisting of at
least

one

operational

satellite in Geostationary
Orbit and several satellites
in polar orbits, creating a
satellite

constellation

OTHER

to

NASASatelliteLive

SatelliteTraining

Lyngemark

SatellitePosition

LiveSatelliteFeed

monitor the Chinese and

surrounding

territory

to

deliver timely data relevant

Space Stations

forweatherforecastingand
nowcasting. The program
saw its first launch back in

InternationalSpaceStation

1988whentheFengyun1A

Tiangong1

satellite was launched into

Image:CAST

a SunSynchronous Orbit
Fengyun1Bfollowedin1990.

Crewed Spacecraft

ThedevelopmentoftheFengyun2satellitesastheGeostationarycomponentof
theconstellationstartedinthe1980sandthefirstsatellitewasreadyforlaunchin

SoyuzTMAM

1994, however, when being loaded with propellants for flight, the satellite

SoyuzMS

exploded, killing one technician, injuring 20 more and setting back the entire
program that went through a redesign of the satellites propulsion system. As a
result, the first Fengyun 2 satellite launched three years later than originally

Shenzhou
Orion

planned. A total of six FY2 satellites have been launched to date, entering
positionsat86.5and105EastinGeostationaryOrbit.OftheFY1polarorbiting
series, four satellites have been launched with FY1C making the news in 2007
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when it was destroyed as part of a antisatellite test conducted by the Chinese,

creatingalargedebriscloudinorbit.
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SatelliteImagery

NASASatellite

SpaceSatellite

SatelliteView

Cargo Spacecraft
ATV
Cygnus
Dragon
HTVSpacecraftInformation
ProgressM
ProgressMS

Image:ChinaMeteorologicalAdministration
TheFY1generationofsatellitesweresucceededbytheFY3satellites,thefirstof
whichlaunchedin2008andwasfollowedbytwomorein2010and2013tokeep
upasteadyflowofmeteorologicaldatafromaLowEarthOrbit.Themostrecent
FY2 launch took place in January 2012. The FY4 series of Geostationary

NASASatelliteLive

SatelliteTraining

Lyngemark

SatellitePosition

LiveSatelliteFeed

SatellitesiscurrentlybeingdevelopedandwilltakeoverfromFY2inthecoming
yearswiththefirstlaunchasearlyas2015.
The FY2 spacecraft are spinstabilized satellites rotating at 100 RPM with a de

Interplanetary Craft

spun antenna unit and bodymounted solar panels for power generation.
Developed by the Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology (SAST) and

Gaia

China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), the cylindrical satellite bus

GRAIL

measures about 2.1 meters in diameter and 4.5 meters in length. Overall, the
satellitehasalaunchmassaround1,380Kilogramsandaninorbitmassof680
KilogramsusingasolidfueledapogeekickmotortoinjectitselfintoGeostationary
Orbit with a liquidfueled propulsion system for orbital adjustments and
stationkeeping.

Hayabusa2
Juno
LADEE
MarsScienceLaboratory

Fengyun 2Gs main instrument is the Stretched Visible and Infrared Spin Scan
Radiometerthatdeliversdaylightcloudimageryinthevisiblewavelengths,round
theclockinfraredcloudimagerywhichalsoallowsthedeterminationofcloudtop

MAVEN
NewHorizons

temperature, sea surface temperature and wind field distribution. The instrument
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coversavisiblebandat0.5to1.0m,aseriesofinfraredbandsaround35and
10.512.5mandadedicatedwatervaporchannelat6.27.6m.
FY2Gs main instrument was designed to meet the data requirements by
combining a favorable spectral coverage, spectral resolution, spatial resolution
andradiometricaccuracy.ThesatellitecoverstheentirediskoftheEarth.
Data from FY2 is used to determine atmospheric temperature profiles, cloud
watercontent,precipitationrate,reflectancedataforvegetationassessments,sea
surface temperature, ocean imagery, land surface temperature and imagery.
Image resolution reaches 1.25 and 5 Kilometers for the visible and infrared
channels.

NASASatelliteLive

SatelliteTraining

Lyngemark

SatellitePosition

LiveSatelliteFeed

Additionally, the Fengyun 2G satellite carries a Space Environment Monitor, a

miniaturized instrument that measures the radiation environment in nearEarth
spaceandcanbeusedforspaceweatherassessmentsandresearch.
Also, the satellite sports a Solar XRay Monitor and a Data Collection Service
Terminal that uses a UHF/SBand Terminal that is operated to deliver acquired
datatovarioususersonthegroundinrealtimevialowdataratecommunications
toenablearapiddistributionandprocessingofdatabythosewhoneedit.

Earth Observation
ALOS2
ASNARO1
Deimos2
DMC3
DMSPBlock5D3
Fengyun2
GPMCoreMission&
SpacecraftOverview
Himawari8and9
KazEOSat1
KazEOSat2
KOMPSAT3A
KOMPSat5
Kondor
LandsatLDCM
MetOpB
MSG4SatelliteMeteosat
SecondGeneration
OCO2OrbitingCarbon
Observatory2
SPOT7
WorldView3

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Navigation
Beidou3
Galileo
GlonassM
GlonassK1
GPSBlockIIF
IRNSS

NASASatelliteLive

SatelliteTraining

LyngemarkSatellite

SatellitePosition

LiveSatelliteFeed

SatelliteSensor

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