National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 9

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
December, 1984 to December, 1997

The 5th generation series of POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites) started with NOAA-K (NOAA-15) which was launched on a Titan II vehicle on May 13, 1998 from VAFB, CA into a morning orbit to replace the aging NOAA-12 satellite.

directory.eoportal.org

http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/

Instrument	Datasets
ARGOS-3	0
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/2	84
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment	0
High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/2	2
Microwave Sounding Unit	0
Communications package for NOAA	0
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking	0
Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2	0
Space Environment Monitor	0
Stratospheric Sounding Unit	0
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder	2

Also known as :

• missionID 97 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission NOAA-9 (ceos lexicon)
• resource NOAA-9 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source NOAA-9 (nsidc lexicon)
• Source NOAA-9 (ornl lexicon)
• Platform NOAA-9 (podaac lexicon)