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TanSat  

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  • The first Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite Mission (TanSat) was launched on December 21, 2016. It carries two instruments on-board: the Atmospheric Carbon-dioxide Grating Spectrometer (ACGS) and the multiple-band Cloud and Aerosol Polarization Imager (CAPI). TanSat flies in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) with an equator crossing time around 13:30 local time. The satellite operates in three measurement modes: nadir (ND), glint (GL) and target (TG). The swath width of TanSat measurements is ~18 km across the satellite track and contains 9 footprints each with a size of 2 km × 2 km in nadir. Nadir and glint mode alternate orbit-by-orbit, and the TanSat nadir model ground track is typically between two OCO-2 tracks, which provides potential future opportunities for combined usage of both data products for increased spatial coverage. (en)

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  • 2022-03-28 11:47:41.0 [mmorahan] Insert Concept add broader relation (TanSat [3b26dec5-2cb1-48ce-9873-048c321fdebe,879780] - Earth Observation Satellites [3466eed1-2fbb-49bf-ab0b-dc08731d502b,869885]);
  • 2022-03-28 11:59:55.0 [mmorahan] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: inese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The first Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite Mission (TanSat) was launched on December 21, 2016. It carries two instruments on-board: the Atmospheric Carbon-dioxide Grating Spectrometer (ACGS) and the multiple-band Cloud and Aerosol Polarization Imager (CAPI). TanSat flies in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) with an equator crossing time around 13:30 local time. The satellite operates in three measurement modes: nadir (ND), glint (GL) and target (TG). The swath width of TanSat measurements is ~18 km across the satellite track and contains 9 footprints each with a size of 2 km × 2 km in nadir. Nadir and glint mode alternate orbit-by-orbit, and the TanSat nadir model ground track is typically between two OCO-2 tracks, which provides potential future opportunities for combined usage of both data products for increased spatial coverage. language code: en);
  • 2022-04-07 12:04:50.0 [mmorahan] update AltLabel (Chinese Carbon Dioxide Observation Satellite);

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