---
- description: "LAGEOS-I is a of NASA - the orbit of the spacecraft (and its slight perturbations) represent the geodynamic measurements. LAGEOS-I is the first NASA satellite dedicated wholly to laser ranging. LAGEOS was designed to act as a permanent reference point so that the Earth's progress could be tracked relative to the satellite (in contrast to the traditional system of tracking satellites relative to the Earth). One of LAGEOS' functions is to aid in the understanding of the Earth's crustal motions. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) as well as many institutions around the world are tracking the LAGEOS orbit to study the dynamics of the solid Earth, to analyze (deduce) continental drift (plate tectonics, crustal deformations), the Earth's gravitational field, and the “wobble” in the Earth's axis of rotation."
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lageos
  end_date: 2052-10-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/laser-geodynamics-satellite-2.yaml
  identifier: laser-geodynamics-satellite-2
  name: 'Laser Geodynamics Satellite - 2'
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1992-10-22T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/laser-geodynamics-satellite-2
  url: http://www.asi.it
- description: 'LARES is a low-cost Italian geodynamic satellite mission (managed by ASI) with a short development time that will enable achieving important scientific goals in gravitational physics, fundamental physics and Earth sciences fields. The program is a collaboration between ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Università di Roma, and Università di Lecce.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/lares
  end_date: 2052-02-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/laser-relativity-satellite.yaml
  identifier: laser-relativity-satellite
  name: LAser RElativity Satellite
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2012-02-13T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/laser-relativity-satellite
  url: http://www.asi.it
- description: ~
  description_attribution: ~
  end_date: 2017-06-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/mapping-satellites.yaml
  identifier: mapping-satellites
  name: Mapping satellites
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2012-01-09T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/mapping-satellites
  url: http:/www.cresda.com/
- description: ~
  description_attribution: ~
  end_date: 1996-04-17T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/marine-observation-satellite.yaml
  identifier: marine-observation-satellite
  name: Marine Observation Satellite
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1990-02-07T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/marine-observation-satellite
  url: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/mos1/index_e.html
- description: ~
  description_attribution: ~
  end_date: 1995-11-29T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/marine-observation-satellite-1.yaml
  identifier: marine-observation-satellite-1
  name: Marine Observation Satellite-1
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1987-02-19T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/marine-observation-satellite-1
  url: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/mos1/index_e.html
- description: 'Megha-Tropiques (or MT) is a cooperative experimental mission of ISRO and CNES, the space agencies of India and France, with the objective to study the convective systems (water cycle and energetic exchanges) that affect the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone), in particular in the latitudes between 10º and 20º, with satisfactory temporal sampling. The most energetic tropical systems, such as the cloud clusters of the ITCZ, the monsoon systems and the tropical cyclones, extend over hundreds of kilometers. Hence, a ground resolution of about 10 km is adequate for these observations. Megha-Tropiques, with its unique combination of scientific payloads and its special near-equatorial orbit (offering improved data sampling of the ITCZ), is expected to provide valuable data for climate research. - Note: Megha means “cloud” in Sanskrit; Tropiques is the French word for “tropics.”'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/megha-tropiques
  end_date: 2015-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/megha-tropiques.yaml
  identifier: megha-tropiques
  name: Megha-Tropiques
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2011-10-12T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/megha-tropiques
  url: http://smsc.cnes.fr/MEGHAT/
- description: '"Meteor" is the Soviet/Russian generic name for its Low-Earth-Orbiting (LEO) meteorological satellite family which started operation in 1969, designed and developed by VNIIEM (All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics), Moscow. Sponsoring agency: ROSHYDROMET, the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. Prior to this series there was an experimental Cosmos series with the first orbiting meteorological satellite, "Cosmos-44," which was launched on August 25, 1964, and was followed by nine analogous Cosmos satellites until 1969, when the succeeding series was officially named.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor
  end_date: 2002-08-06T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-2-n21.yaml
  identifier: meteor-2-n21
  name: Meteor-2 N21
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1991-08-31T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-2-n21
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: '"Meteor" is the Soviet/Russian generic name for its Low-Earth-Orbiting (LEO) meteorological satellite family which started operation in 1969, designed and developed by VNIIEM (All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics), Moscow. Sponsoring agency: ROSHYDROMET, the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. Prior to this series there was an experimental Cosmos series with the first orbiting meteorological satellite, "Cosmos-44," which was launched on August 25, 1964, and was followed by nine analogous Cosmos satellites until 1969, when the succeeding series was officially named.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor
  end_date: 2001-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-2-n24.yaml
  identifier: meteor-2-n24
  name: Meteor-2 N24
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-2-n24
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: 'Meteor-3 is a USSR/Russian Federation LEO weather/environmental satellite series of ROSHYDROMET as sponsoring agency. The program development started in the early 1980s with a first launch in Oct. 1985. A total of seven spacecraft were built for the Meteor-3 series by VNIIEM (All- Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics) of Moscow. In the timeframe of the 1980s, the USSR plans envisaged the development of an integrated hydrometeorological satellite system for the 90s, comprising geostationary (GEO) and LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-3
  end_date: 2002-12-31T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-3-n5.yaml
  identifier: meteor-3-n5
  name: Meteor-3 N5
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1991-08-15T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-3-n5
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: 'Meteor-3 is a USSR/Russian Federation LEO weather/environmental satellite series of ROSHYDROMET as sponsoring agency. The program development started in the early 1980s with a first launch in Oct. 1985. A total of seven spacecraft were built for the Meteor-3 series by VNIIEM (All- Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics) of Moscow. In the timeframe of the 1980s, the USSR plans envisaged the development of an integrated hydrometeorological satellite system for the 90s, comprising geostationary (GEO) and LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-3
  end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-3-n7.yaml
  identifier: meteor-3-n7
  name: Meteor-3 N7
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1994-01-25T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-3-n7
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: 'Meteor-3 is a USSR/Russian Federation LEO weather/environmental satellite series of ROSHYDROMET as sponsoring agency. The program development started in the early 1980s with a first launch in Oct. 1985. A total of seven spacecraft were built for the Meteor-3 series by VNIIEM (All- Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Electromechanics) of Moscow. In the timeframe of the 1980s, the USSR plans envisaged the development of an integrated hydrometeorological satellite system for the 90s, comprising geostationary (GEO) and LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-3
  end_date: 1998-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-3-n8.yaml
  identifier: meteor-3-n8
  name: Meteor-3 N8
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1994-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-3-n8
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: "The Meteor-3M spacecraft series represents a modernization of Russia's national meteorological satellite system sponsored by Roskosmos, Moscow. The overall objective are environmental monitoring in the following fields:"
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-3m-1
  end_date: 2008-04-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-3m.yaml
  identifier: meteor-3m
  name: Meteor-3M
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2001-12-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-3m
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: "The Meteor-3M spacecraft series represents a modernization of Russia's national meteorological satellite system sponsored by Roskosmos, Moscow. The overall objective are environmental monitoring in the following fields:"
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-3m-1
  end_date: 2005-12-31T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteor-3m-n1.yaml
  identifier: meteor-3m-n1
  name: Meteor-3M N1
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2001-12-10T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteor-3m-n1
  url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/
- description: "MetOp-A is Europe's first polar-orbiting (LEO) satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. The MetOp program was originally planned as a much larger satellite concept, called POEM (Polar-Orbit Earth-Observation Mission), a successor mission series to ERS-1/2 on the Columbus Polar Platform (PPF design)."
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/metop
  end_date: 2018-08-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-a.yaml
  identifier: meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-a
  name: 'Meteorological Operational Polar Satellite - A'
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2006-10-19T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-a
  url: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/index.htm?l=en?
- description: "MetOp-A is Europe's first polar-orbiting (LEO) satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. The MetOp program was originally planned as a much larger satellite concept, called POEM (Polar-Orbit Earth-Observation Mission), a successor mission series to ERS-1/2 on the Columbus Polar Platform (PPF design)."
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/metop
  end_date: 2017-09-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-b.yaml
  identifier: meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-b
  name: 'Meteorological Operational Polar Satellite - B'
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2012-09-17T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteorological-operational-polar-satellite-b
  url: http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/index.htm?l=en?
- description: "MetSat-1 is ISRO's first dedicated GEO weather satellite project built by ISRO. So far, meteorological services had been combined with telecommunication and television services in the INSAT series. MetSat-1 is a precursor to the future INSAT system that will have separate satellites for meteorology and telecommunication & broadcasting services."
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/k/kalpana-1
  end_date: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteorological-satellite.yaml
  identifier: meteorological-satellite
  name: Meteorological Satellite
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2002-09-12T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteorological-satellite
  url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm
- description: 'The Meteor-M-1 (also referred to as Meteor-M N1) satellite is a Roskosmos/Roshydromet/Planeta (Moscow, Russia) follow-up polar-orbiting meteorological mission to Meteor-3M-1 (launch Dec. 10, 2001). The organization responsible for the acquisition, recording, processing, archiving, cataloging, and dissemination of space data is NTs OMZ (Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring), Moscow.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-m-1
  end_date: 2015-09-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n1.yaml
  identifier: meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n1
  name: Meteorological Satellite Meteor-M N1
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2009-09-17T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n1
  url: http://planet.iitp.ru; http://eng.ntsomz.ru/ks_dzz/satellites;
- description: 'The Meteor-M-1 (also referred to as Meteor-M N1) satellite is a Roskosmos/Roshydromet/Planeta (Moscow, Russia) follow-up polar-orbiting meteorological mission to Meteor-3M-1 (launch Dec. 10, 2001). The organization responsible for the acquisition, recording, processing, archiving, cataloging, and dissemination of space data is NTs OMZ (Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring), Moscow.'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteor-m-1
  end_date: 2019-12-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n2.yaml
  identifier: meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n2
  name: Meteorological Satellite Meteor-M N2
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 2014-07-08T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteorological-satellite-meteor-m-n2
  url: http://planet.iitp.ru; http://eng.ntsomz.ru/ks_dzz/satellites;
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-1.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-1
  name: Meteosat-1
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1977-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-1
  url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 1993-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-2.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-2
  name: Meteosat-2
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1981-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-2
  url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-3.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-3
  name: Meteosat-3
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-3
  url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-4.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-4
  name: Meteosat-4
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-4
  url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 2007-04-26T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-5.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-5
  name: Meteosat-5
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1991-03-02T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-5
  url: umetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html
- description: 'Meteosat is the European meteorological program in GEO (Geostationary Orbit) that was initiated in 1972 by ESRO (European Space Research Organization). ESRO was founded in 1962 and served as predecessor organization to ESA (European Space Agency) which was founded in 1975. Actually the beginnings of European space meteorology goes back to 1968 when CNES, the young French national space agency, proposed to ESRO to “Europeanize” its “Meteosat” concept. The proposal was accepted in 1972 and 8 Member States decided to finance the Meteosat Preoperational Program (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland).'
  description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/m/meteosat-first-generation
  end_date: 2011-05-02T00:00:00
  href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/platform/meteosat-6.yaml
  identifier: meteosat-6
  name: Meteosat-6
  platform_type_identifier: spacecraft
  start_date: 1993-11-20T00:00:00
  uri: /platform/meteosat-6
  url: http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/spacecraft.html