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ADEOS I

ADEOS I
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Launch of ADEOS I aboard an H-II rocket
Names Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
Midori
Mission type Earth observation
Environmental monitoring
Operator NASDA
COSPAR ID 1996-046A
SATCAT no. 24277
Mission duration Final: 10 months, 13 days
Spacecraft properties
Launch mass 3,500 kg (7,700 lb)
Dimensions 4 × 4 × 5 m (13 × 13 × 16 ft)
Power 5,000 watts
Start of mission
Launch date 17 August 1996, 01:53:00 (1996-08-17UTC01:53) UTC
Rocket H-II
Launch site Tanegashima Yoshinobu 1
End of mission
Disposal Spacecraft failure
Last contact 30 June 1997, 07:21 (1997-06-30UTC07:22) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Sun-synchronous
Eccentricity 0.0002193
Perigee 792 km (492 mi)
Apogee 795 km (494 mi)
Inclination 98.7 degrees
Period 101 minutes
Mean motion 14.29 rev/day
Epoch 26 December 2016, 19:33:18 UTC

ADEOS I (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite 1) was an Earth observation satellite launched by NASDA in 1996. The mission's Japanese name, Midori, means "green".

The mission ended in July 1997 after the satellite sustained structural damage to the solar panel array. Its successor, ADEOS II, was launched in 2002. Like the first mission, it ended after less than a year – also following solar panel malfunctions.

ADEOS was designed to observe Earth's environmental changes, focusing on global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, and deforestation.

On board the satellite are eight instruments developed by NASDA, NASA, and CNES. The Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) is a whisk broom radiometer developed by NASDA. The Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer (AVNIR), an optoelectronic scanning radiometer with CCD detectors, was also produced by NASDA. The NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), developed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, used fan-beam Doppler signals to measure wind speeds over bodies of water. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) was built by CNES to study changes to Earth's ozone layer. The Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance (POLDER) device was also developed by CNES, and was also launched on ADEOS II. The Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS) was developed by NASDA and the Environment Agency of Japan, and used grating spectrometers to measure the properties of trace gases using solar occultation. The Retroreflector in Space (RIS) and Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases (IMG) were both developed by Japan, and studied atmospheric trace gases and greenhouse gases respectively.


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