Meteor-3M
The Meteor-3M spacecraft series represented a follow-up to the Meteor-3 series to provide a modernization of Russia's national meteorological satellite system sponsored by Roskosmos.
The overall objective are environmental monitoring in the following fields:
On Meteor-3M-1 carried the US instrument SAGE-3, which was flown as a joint mission of Rosaviakosmos and NASA. A corresponding cooperative agreement was approved by the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission on 16 December 1994.
The Meteor-3M-1 sensor complement consists of the following instruments: MR-2000-M1; KLIMAT; MIVZA; MTVZA; MSU-E; SAGE-III; SFM-2; KGI-4C, and MSGI-5EI.
Meteor-3M-1 was successfully launched on Dec. 10, 2001. It stopped functioning on 6 March 2006 due to a breakdown of its power supply system resulting in a loss of communications with the spacecraft. - The spacecraft (with a design life of 3 years) provided over 4 years of successful operations.
It was planned for the Meteor-3M series to combine the meteorological observations of the Meteor-3 series with the Earth-surface observations of the Resurs-O1 series, starting with Meteor-3M-2 with an originally planned launch in 2007.
The Meteor-3M-2 sensor complement was to consist of the following instruments: MTVZA, MSU-MR (2 instruments), MSU-SR (2 instruments), IKFS-2, MSGI-MKA, KGS-4S, a DCS (Data Collection System), RRA (RetroReflector Array), and SAGE-III of NASA/LaRC.
The Meteor-3M series was cancelled after the first mission in favor of the Meteor-M series.
Nation: | Russia |
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Type / Application: | Meteorology |
Operator: | Roskosmos |
Contractors: | NPP VNIIEM |
Equipment: | see above |
Configuration: | SP-2 bus |
Propulsion: | |
Power: | 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 years (design), 4 years (achieved) |
Mass: | 2477 kg |
Orbit: | 996 km × 1016 km, 99.65° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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Meteor-3M 1 | 2001-056A | 10.12.2001 | Ba LC-45/1 | Zenit-2 | with Kompass, Badr B, Maroc-Tubsat, Reflector | |
Meteor-3M 2 | - | cancelled | Ba LC-45/1 | Zenit-2 | ||
Meteor-3M 3 | - | cancelled | Ba LC-45/1 | Zenit-2 | ||
Meteor-3M 4 | - | cancelled | Ba LC-45/1 | Zenit-2 |