| Operator | NASA / Langley Research Center |
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| Major contractors | NOAA Office of Naval Research Space Dynamics Laboratory |
| Bus | TRW T-310 |
| Mission type | Orbiter |
| Satellite of | Earth |
| Launch date | Cancelled: queued for 2005-2006 |
| Launch vehicle | Delta II |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station |
| Homepage | nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/eo3 |
| Mass | 1805 kg |
| Power | 320 W |
| Orbital elements | |
| Altitude | 35,400 km (HEO) |
| Instruments | |
| Main instruments | GIFTS-IOMI |
| Spectral band | X-band |
Earth Observing 3 (EO3) GIFTS-IOMI is a proposed NASA New Millennium Program joint mission with the US Navy's Office of Naval Research. GIFTS-IOMI or Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer — Indian Ocean METOC Imager was the instrument selected by NASA to perform as EO3's latest weather observing instrument. The EO3 project ended with the cancellation of NMP in 2008.
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