FY-1D Satellite

Description

  • 4th flight unit of the FY-1 series.
  • Main mission: operational meteorology.
  • Significant contribution to space weather.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit
Altitude 866 km
ECT 09:00 desc
Mass at launch 954 kg
Power 256 W
Launch 2002-05-15
End of service 2012-04-01

Payload

Acronym Full name
MVISR  Multi-channel Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
SEM  Space Environment Monitor

Data Circulation

Onboard stored data at reduced resolution and selected frames at full resolution are dowlinked by GDPT (Global Delayed Picture Transmission) to stations of the China National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC) in Beijing, Guangzhou and Urumqi.

Real-time broadcasting of full resolution data by the CHRPT (Chinese High Resolution Picture Transmission) to properly equipped (HRPT-like) local stations.

Products

Payload Datasets
MVIRS L1 dataL2L3 product

Gallery

FY-1C

First image of FY-1D

FY-1C

First image of FY-1D