Himawari 8
| Mission type | Weather satellite |
|---|---|
| Operator | JMA |
| COSPAR ID | 2014-060A |
| SATCAT № | 40267 |
| Mission duration | 8 years (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Bus | DS-2000 |
| Manufacturer | Mitsubishi Electric |
| Launch mass | 3500 kg |
| Dry mass | 1300 kg |
| Power | 2.6 kilowatts from solar array |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 7 October 2014, 05:16 UTC |
| Rocket | H-IIA 202 |
| Launch site | Tanegashima LA-Y1 |
| Contractor | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Geostationary |
| Longitude | 140° East |
| Perigee | 35,791 km (22,239 mi)[1] |
| Apogee | 35,795 km (22,242 mi)[1] |
| Inclination | 0.03 degrees[1] |
| Period | 1436.13 minutes[1] |
| Epoch | 22 January 2015, 22:13:28 UTC[1] |
Himawari 8 is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric, and is the first of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 bus.[2]
Himawari 8 was launched atop a H-IIA rocket flying from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex Pad 1 at the Tanegashima Space Center.[3] The launch occurred at 05:16 UTC on 7 October 2014. Upon reaching geostationary orbit in October 2014, it will be placed at 140 degrees East and will replace MTSAT-2 in 2015.[4]
At launch, the mass of the satellite was about 3,500 kilograms (7,700 lb). It has a design life of 15 years with 8 years of operational life. Power is supplied by a single gallium arsenide solar panel, which provides up to 2.6 kilowatts of power. The main instrument aboard Himawari 8, the Advanced Hiwawari Imager (AHI), is a 16 channel multispectral imager to capture visible light and infrared images of the Asia-Pacific region.[5] The instrument has similar spectral and spatial characteristics to the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) planned for use in the American GOES-R satellites.
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Liftoff of the H-IIA rocket carrying Himawari 8 on October 7, 2014
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The first true-color PNG image from Himawari 8 on January 25, 2015
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Peat, Chris (22 January 2015). "HIMAWARI 8 - Orbit". Heavens-Above. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ Graham, William. "Japan lofts Himawari 8 weather satellite via H-IIA rocket". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ↑ Clark, Stephen. "H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ↑ "JMA/MSC: Himawari-8/9". Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ↑ "New geostationary meteorological satellites — Himawari-8/9 —" (PDF). Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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