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The Himawari (ひまわり, “sunflower”) geostationary satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), support weather forecasting, tropical cyclone tracking, and meteorology research.
Himawari 9 is a Japanese weather satellite, the 9th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric , and is the second of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 bus.
Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency.The spacecraft was constructed by Mitsubishi Electric with assistance from Boeing, and is the first of two similar satellites to be based on the DS2000 satellite bus. [3]
MTSAT-1 Himawari 6. Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) were a series of weather and aviation control satellites. They were replaced by Himawari 8 on 7 July 2015. They were geostationary satellites owned and operated by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), and provide coverage for the hemisphere centred ...
Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite. The first precise carbon dioxide observing satellite and precursor to OCO-2. Himawari 8 and 9: Active Japan Meteorological Agency: 2014 Similar to NASA's GOES satellites. ICESat-2: Active NASA 2018 Measures ice sheet height changes for climate change diagnoses. [16] [17] IMS-1: Active ISRO: 2008 ISS: Active
The DS2000 satellite bus, used for Kiku 8, was also used for the meteorological satellite Himawari 7, which allowed costs to be reduced and made it possible to launch domestically produced weather satellites again. There have been plans to launch a small scientific satellite lot, with the aim of deploying inexpensive custom-built satellites.
This included providing cloud images for television from Japan's first meteorological satellite Himawari. [7] In October 1991 it provided the world's first weather forecast using entirely 3D CGI graphics to News Station . In 1993 it produced a program for TV Tokyo, Weather Paradise. [8]
With the opening of the Japanese satellite communications market to private investment, Japan Communications Satellite Company (JCSAT) and Satellite Japan Corporation were founded in 1985. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In June of the same year, JCSAT awarded an order to Hughes Space and Communications for two identical satellites, JCSAT-1 and JCSAT-2 , based on ...