Ocean color satellite B

Chinese Academy of Space Technology, National Satellite Ocean Application Service
April, 2007 to April, 2011

HY-1B (also spelling of: Hai Yang-1B) is the second of China's ocean observation satellites with the overall objective to survey ocean resources (ocean color and sea surface temperature) and monitoring the environment. The spacecraft and its payload is practically a duplicate of the HY-1A mission which took place from May 15. 2002 to April 2004. - The design life of HY-1B improved from two years to three years. The HY program is being developed the by CASC (Chinese Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation) and sponsored by the State Ocean Administration (SOA), Beijing, China.

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Instrument	Datasets
Coastal Zone Imager	0
China Ocean Colour & Temperature Scanner	0

Also known as :

• missionID 467 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission HY-1B (ceos lexicon)