Meteor-3 N8

Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia, Russian Federal Space Agency
January, 1994 to January, 1998

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
ISP	0
Scanning IR radiometer	0
Microwave scanning radiometer	0
Scanning visible radiometer	0
Scanning visual band telephotometer	0
Radiation Measurement Complex	0
Temperature and Humidity Profiler	0

Also known as :

• missionID 128 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission Meteor-3 N8 (ceos lexicon)