The Geostationary Meteorological Satellites (GMS) were Japan's contribution to the international Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP). The GMS series carried the Visible and Spin Scan Radiometer (VISSR). The satellite was spin-stabilized with a despun earth-pointing antenna. The satellite was positioned near 140 deg E and was designed to operate for 5 years. This was a follow-on GMS type spacecraft launched and controlled by NASDA of Japan. The spacecraft was launched in August 1984, and turned off in December 1989. __________ Taken from the NSSDC System for Information Retrieval and Storage (SIRS). For more information contact the NSSDC Coordinated Request and User Support Office, 301-286-6695 (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA). WWW: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Technical contact: Yukio Haruyama, Earth Observation program office director, Program plannig and management department, National space development agency of Japan Head office Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Phone: 81-3-5470-4252 Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: GMS-3 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: GMS (Japan Geostationary Meteorological Satellite) Short_Name: GMS-3 Long_Name: Geostationary Meteorological Satellite-3 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: GMS-3 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: VISSR-GMS End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 36,000 km Orbit_Type: GEO > Geosynchronous > Geostationary End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-10-01 Online_Resource: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gms/index_e.html Online_Resource: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/gms-2.htm Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1984-08-03 Launch_Site: Tanegashima Island, Japan Primary_Sponsor: Japan/JAXA End_Group End_Group
GMS-3
Japan Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS)