--- - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 1989-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-6.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-6 name: 'Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 6' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1984-02-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-6 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/CEOS agency updates Jan 02\Missions\Missions_NOAA.xls'1. Mission information'!N122 - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-7.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-7 name: 'Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 7' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1987-02-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-7 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/ - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 2003-01-04T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-8.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-8 name: 'Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 8' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1994-04-13T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-8 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/ - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 2005-01-15T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-9.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-9 name: 'Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - 9' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1995-05-23T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-9 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/ - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-1.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-1 name: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (SMS 1) platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1987-02-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-1 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/CEOS agency updates Jan 02\Missions\Missions_NOAA.xls'1. Mission information'!N122 - description: 'GOES is a joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite series. NOAA is responsible for providing funding, requirements, and operation of the system in orbit. NASA, under contract from NOAA, is responsible for spacecraft procurement, design, and development of the spacecraft and its instruments, and the launch of each satellite. NOAA owns and operates the satellites and provides the services to the user community.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goes-2nd-generation end_date: 1995-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-2.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-2 name: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (SMS 2) platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1987-02-26T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-environmental-satellite-sms-2 url: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/CEOS agency updates Jan 02\Missions\Missions_NOAA.xls'1. Mission information'!N122 - description: 'Electro-L is an approved geostationary meteorological mission under development of ROSHYDROMET / PLANETA / Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency), a successor spacecraft to GOMS (Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite), also referred to as Electro-1, launched Oct. 31, 1994 (which was never brought to full operational service due to technical problems). The overall mission objectives of Electro-L are:' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/e/electro-l end_date: 2021-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite name: Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2011-01-20T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite url: http://planet.iitp.ru; http://eng.ntsomz.ru/ks_dzz/satellites - description: "GOMS-1, also referred to as (and a spelling of Elektro-1), is the first (experimental) geostationary weather satellite of Russia. Initial program planning started in the early 1970s (the VPK Military-Industrial Commission requested development of a unified meteorological system to be operational by 1979), and continued through the 1980s [involvement of ROSHYDROMET (Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) and other institutions in Russia]. The program's numerous delays were due to both equipment and software problems." description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/e/electro-1 end_date: 1998-09-15T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite-1.yaml identifier: geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite-1 name: 'Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite - 1' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1994-11-01T00:00:00 uri: /platform/geostationary-operational-meteorological-satellite-1 url: http://sputnik1.infospace.ru/ROSHYDROMET\ROSHYDROMET Agency Missions.doc - description: 'GCOM is a JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) observation program consisting of a constellation of two medium-sized spacecraft with the provisional names of and. GCOM is seen as a follow-up program to ADEOS.-II (launch Dec. 14, 2002) with the overall objective to contribute to global change research through long-term (> 10 years) sustained observations with corresponding data sets.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/gcom end_date: 2017-05-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/global-change-observation-mission-w1.yaml identifier: global-change-observation-mission-w1 name: Global Change Observation Mission-W1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2012-05-18T00:00:00 uri: /platform/global-change-observation-mission-w1 url: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gcom/index_e.html - description: 'GPM is a cooperative international US/Japanese Earth science mission with the prime agencies of NASA and JAXA, respectively. GPM is a follow-on and expanded mission to (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), launched Nov. 27, 1997 and still in operation in late 2012 (in Oct. 2005, NASA decided to continue the TRMM mission until at least 2009 and possibly until 2012). TRMM has been demonstrating the benefits of rain measurement from space. The overall objectives of the GPM mission are to observe global precipitation more frequently and more accurately than TRMM. GPM will build on the work of TRMM and extend the science from understanding tropical rainfall to using that understanding to improve climate, weather, and hydrological forecasts on a global basis.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/gpm end_date: 2017-05-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/global-precipitation-measurement-mission-core-spacecraft.yaml identifier: global-precipitation-measurement-mission-core-spacecraft name: Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Core spacecraft platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2014-02-27T00:00:00 uri: /platform/global-precipitation-measurement-mission-core-spacecraft url: 'http://gpm.gsfc.nasa.gov, http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/GPM/' - description: 'GOCE is an ESA geodynamics and geodetic mission, a combined SGG (Satellite Gravity Gradiometry) and SST (Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking) mission. It was selected as a core mission in the ESA Earth Explorer Program (selected at the Granada meeting Oct. 12-14, 1999; prime contract award in Nov. 2001).' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/goce end_date: 2013-10-21T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/gravity-field-and-steady-state-ocean-circulation-explorer.yaml identifier: gravity-field-and-steady-state-ocean-circulation-explorer name: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2009-03-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/gravity-field-and-steady-state-ocean-circulation-explorer url: http://earth.esa.int/goce - description: "GRACE is an international cooperative US-German dual-minisatellite SST (Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking) geodetic mission with the overall objective to obtain long-term data with unprecedented accuracy for global (high-resolution) models of the mean and the time-variable components of the Earth's gravity field (a new model of the Earth's gravity field every 30 days for five years). GRACE is also part of NASA's ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program. Some science objectives are:" description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/grace end_date: 2015-10-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/gravity-recovery-and-climate-experiment.yaml identifier: gravity-recovery-and-climate-experiment name: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2002-03-17T00:00:00 uri: /platform/gravity-recovery-and-climate-experiment url: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/ - description: GOSAT (nickname Ibuki meaning “breath” or “puff”) is a JAXA mission within the GCOM (Global Change Observation Mission) program of Japan. The GOSAT mission goals call for the study of the transport mechanisms of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO ) and methane (CH ). description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/gosat end_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/greenhouse-gases-observing-satellite.yaml identifier: greenhouse-gases-observing-satellite name: Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2009-01-23T00:00:00 uri: /platform/greenhouse-gases-observing-satellite url: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html - description: 'ICESat is a NASA/GSFC mission within the ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program. The prime objective is to monitor the mass balance of the polar ice sheets and their contributions to global sea level change. Secondary goals are to measure cloud heights and the vertical structure of clouds and aerosols in the atmosphere, further to measure roughness, reflectivity, vegetation heights, snow-cover, and sea-ice surface characteristics, and to map topography of land surfaces. Note: ICESat is the renamed former “Laser Altimetry-1” mission.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/icesat end_date: 2010-08-14T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/ice-cloud-and-land-elevation-satellite.yaml identifier: ice-cloud-and-land-elevation-satellite name: 'Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2003-01-12T00:00:00 uri: /platform/ice-cloud-and-land-elevation-satellite url: http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - description: 'IMS-1, previously referred to as (Third World Satellite), is a low-cost microsatellite imaging mission of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). The overall objective is to provide medium-resolution imagery for developing countries for free. Around 50 data reception terminals will be installed by ISRO in selected Third World countries and also at some universities in India.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/ims-1 end_date: 2013-12-28T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-mini-satellite-1.yaml identifier: indian-mini-satellite-1 name: Indian Mini Satellite-1 platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2008-04-28T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-mini-satellite-1 url: ~ - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 1989-07-10T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-1b.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-1b name: 'Indian National Satellite - 1B' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1982-07-10T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-1b url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 1989-07-10T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-1c.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-1c name: 'Indian National Satellite - 1C' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1984-07-10T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-1c url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 1989-07-10T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-1d.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-1d name: 'Indian National Satellite - 1D' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1986-07-10T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-1d url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 1999-07-10T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-2a.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-2a name: 'Indian National Satellite - 2A' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1992-07-10T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-2a url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 2000-03-27T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-2b.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-2b name: 'Indian National Satellite - 2B' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1993-03-27T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-2b url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 2002-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-2c.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-2c name: 'Indian National Satellite - 2C' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1995-07-12T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-2c url: http://www.isro.org/insat2c.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 2003-01-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-2d.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-2d name: 'Indian National Satellite - 2D' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1997-06-04T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-2d url: http://www.isro.org/insat2b.htm - description: 'The INSAT system of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose geostationary satellite system for telecommunications, television broadcasting, meteorology and search & rescue service. The overall objective of the INSAT meteorological program is to provide round-the-clock surveillance service of weather systems including severe weather events around the Indian region. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT was and is also one of the largest domestic communication systems in the Asia-Pacific Region.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-2 end_date: 2011-05-04T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-2e.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-2e name: 'Indian National Satellite - 2E' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 1999-04-03T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-2e url: http://www.isro.org/ - description: 'The INSAT-3 series of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) is a multipurpose spacecraft with an all Ku-band transponder layout for direct-to-home television and roof-top data communication. The satellites incorporate state-of-the-art communication technology such as high power antennas, steerable beam and digital compression/decompression capabilities. The solar panel of the INSAT-3A spacecraft uses an advanced rigid deployable sun-oriented array of GaAs/Ge cells with an area of 26.5 m.' description_attribution: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/insat-3 end_date: 2015-11-01T00:00:00 href: https://data.globalchange.gov/platform/indian-national-satellite-3a.yaml identifier: indian-national-satellite-3a name: 'Indian National Satellite - 3A' platform_type_identifier: spacecraft start_date: 2003-04-04T00:00:00 uri: /platform/indian-national-satellite-3a url: http://www.isro.org/