Satellite characteristics
Launch Date - End 744847200 - 745884000
État Decommissioned
Orbit type Sun-synchronous circular
Altitude 850
Orbit inclination 98.7
Satellite family: POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites)
The POES satellite system offers the advantage of daily global coverage, by making nearly polar orbits roughly 14.1 times daily.
Data from the POES series supports a broad range of environmental monitoring applications including weather analysis and forecasting, climate research and prediction, global sea surface temperature measurements, atmospheric soundings of temperature and humidity, ocean dynamics research, volcanic eruption monitoring, forest fire detection, global vegetation analysis, search and rescue, and many other applications.