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Platforms > Space-based Platforms > Earth Observation Satellites > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) > DMSP 5D-3/F15

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DMSP 5D-3/F15  

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  • [Source: National Space Science Data Center, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1999-067A ] MSP F15 (USA 147) was launched by a Titan rocket from Vandenberg AFB on December 12, 1999 into a 101 minute, sun-synchronous near-polar orbit at an altitude of 840km and with the Local Time nodes of 21:10 and 9:10. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is a Department of Defense (DoD) program run by the Air Force Space and Missle Systems Center (SMC). The program designs, builds, launches, and maintains satellites monitoring the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments. Each DMSP satellite has a above the surface of the earth. The visible and infrared sensors (OLS) collect images across a 3000 km swath, providing global coverage twice per day. The combination of day/night and dawn/dusk satellites allows monitoring of global information such as clouds every 6 hours. The microwave imager (MI) and sounders (T1, T2) cover one half the width of the visible and infrared swath. These instruments cover polar regions at least twice and the equatorial region once per day. The space environment sensors (J4, M, IES) record along-track plasma densities, velocities, composition and drifts. The data from the DMSP satellites are received and used at operational centers continuously. The data are sent to the National Geophysical Data Center's Solar Terrestrial Physics Division (NGDC/STP) by the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) for creation of an archive. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: DMSP 5D-3/F15 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) Short_Name: DMSP 5D-3/F15 Long_Name: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F15 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: GAMMA RAY DETECTOR (SSB) Short_Name: OLS Short_Name: SSM/T Short_Name: SSI/ES Short_Name: SSJ/4 Short_Name: SSM/I Short_Name: SSM/T-2 Short_Name: SSM End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Inclination: 98.9° Period: 101.8 minutes Perigee: 837.0 km Apogee: 851.0 km Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-10-31 Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1999-067A Online_Resource: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/dmsp.html Online_Resource: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/ Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1999-12-12 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Primary_Sponsor: Department of Defense-Department of the Air Force (United States) End_Group End_Group (en)

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  • DMSP-F15 (en)

Change note

  • 2016-06-09 10:38:03.0 [epneff] added altLabel insert AltLabel (id: null text: DMSP-F15 language code: en);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/4d78ad33-3b1d-4ddc-9d4a-296600363d45

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