BackForward Satellite: FY-1C 

Satellite details
Acronym FY-1C
Full name Feng-Yun - 1C
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • 3rd flight unit of the FY-1 programme.
  • Main mission: operational meteorology.
  • Significant contribution to Space weather.
Mass at launch 954 kg Dry mass
Power 256 W
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • Real-time availability of full resolution data by the CHRPT system.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 862 km
ECT 07:00 desc

 

Space agency CMANRSCC
Status Inactive
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch 10 May 1999 EOL 26 Apr 2004
Last update: 2017-12-11
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on FY-1C

Acronym Full name
MVISR Multichannel Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
SEM/HEPD Space Environment Monitor - High Energy Particle Detector
SEM/IMS Space Environment Monitor - Ionosphere Measurement Sensor
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