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Meteorology — GEO (Geosynchronous Earth Orbit) Missions

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Elektro-M-1 is the planned geostationary meteorological mission of Rosaviakosmos, a successor spacecraft to GOMS (also known as Elektro-1). The overall mission objectives are:

  • To provide multispectral imagery (hydro-meteorological data) of the atmosphere (including the cloud-covered sky) and of the Earth’s surface within the coverage region (visible disk) of the spacecraft

  • To collect heliospheric, ionospheric, and magnetospheric data

  • To provide the needed communication services for the transmission/exchange of all data with the ground segment

  • To provide the services of data collection for the DCPs (Data Collection Platforms) in the ground segment.

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Kramer, H.J. (2002). Meteorology — GEO (Geosynchronous Earth Orbit) Missions. In: Observation of the Earth and Its Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56294-5_7

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