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FY-3D Satellite

Description

• 4th flight unit of the FY-3 series.
• Main mission: operational meteorology.
• Substantial contribution to ocean and ice monitoring, climate monitoring.
• Significant contribution to atmospheric chemistry and space weather.

Orbit	Sunsynchronous orbit
Altitude	836 km
ECT	14:00 asc
Dry mass	2300 kg
Power	2500 W
Launch	2017-11-15
End of service	≥2022

Payload

Picture	Acronym	Full name
	MERSI-II	Medium Resolution Spectral Imager-II
	HIRAS-I	Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder-I
	MWTS-II	Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder-II
	MWHS-II	Micro-Wave Humidity Sounder-II
	MWRI-I	Micro-Wave Radiation Imager-I
	GNOS-I	GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder-I
	GAS	Greenhouse-gases Absorption Spectrometer
	WAI	Wide-field Auroral Imager
	IPM	Ionospheric PhotoMeter
	SEM	Space Environment Monitor

Data Circulation

DPT (Delayed Picture Transmission) to acquire the on-board stored global data.

MPT (Medium-resolution Picture Transmission), for X-band real-time broadcasting of information of MERSI data.

HRPT (High Resolution Picture Transmission) for real-time broadcasting of full information of instruments aboard but MERSI.

Products

Payload	Datasets
MERSI-II	L1 data,  L2L3 product
HIRAS-I	L1 data
MWTS-II	L1 data,  L2L3 product
MWHS-II	L1 data,  L2L3 product
MWRI-I	L1 data,  L2L3 product
GNOS-I	L1 data,  L2L3 product
GAS	L1 data
WAI	L1 data
IPM	L1 data
SEM	L1 data,  L2L3 product
TSHS	L2L3 product

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Operational Parameters

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