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ADEOS-2

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Mission Photos:

ADEOS-2
Courtesy of JAXA

Mission Objectives:

The ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite 2 (ADEOS-2) Mission is a joint international cooperative program like its successor, ADEOS-1. With a three-year operational life, the mission will support the monitoring of global environmental changes while continuing and furthering the broad-ranging observation technology created by ADEOS-1.

The three scientific goals are:

  • To regularly monitor the water and energy cycle as a part of the global climate system.
  • To quantitatively estimate the biomass and fundamental productivity as part of the carbon cycle, which plays an important role for global warming.
  • To detect the signal of long term climate change as a result of continuous observations succeeded from ADEOS-1.
Mission Instrumentation:

ADEOS-2 has the following instrumentation onboard:

  • Advanced microwave scanning radiometer
  • Global imager
  • Improved limb atmospheric spectrometer
  • Seawinds
  • Polarization and directionality of earth reflectance
  • Retroreflector array
Mission Parameters:
Sponsor: (JAXA) Japan
Expected Life: 3 years
Primary Applications: environmental monitoring
Primary SLR Applications: precision orbit determination
COSPAR ID: 0205601
SIC Code: 1556
Satellite Catalog (NORAD) Number: 27597
Launch Date: 14 December 2002
NP Bin Size: 15 seconds
RRA Diameter: 16 cm
RRA Shape: hemispherical
Reflectors: 9 corner cubes
Orbit: circular, sun-synchronous sub-recurrent
Inclination: 98.6 degrees
Eccentricity: 0.001
Perigee: 803 km
Period: 101 minutes
Weight: 1200 kg

Additional Information:

Web sites:

Publications:

  • Sawabe, M., and Kashimoto, M., "ADEOS-II precise orbit determinations with GPS and SLR", ADV SPACE RES 23: (4) 763-766 1999.