Meteor-3 N5

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

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.

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Instrument	Datasets
Scanning IR radiometer	0
Backscatter spectrometer/2	0
Scanning visible radiometer	0
Scanning visual band telephotometer	0
UV limb spectrometer	0
Radiation Measurement Complex	0
Temperature and Humidity Profiler	0
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer	0

Also known as :

• missionID 126 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Meteor-3 N5 (ceos lexicon)