Meteor-2 N21

Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia, Russian Federal Space Agency
August, 1991 to August, 2002

"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.

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Instrument	Datasets
Scanning visual band telephotometer	0

Also known as :

• missionID 434 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Meteor-2 N21 (ceos lexicon)