Weather
NORAD ID: 35865
Int'l Code: 2009-049A
Perigee: 824.6 km
Apogee: 827.5 km
Inclination: 98.6 °
Period: 101.3 minutes
Semi major axis: 7197 km
Launch date: September 17, 2009
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Comments: METEOR M1 is a a Russian weather satellite designed to monitor the Earth's climate. Meteor M1's six instruments will give Russian meteorologists a comprehensive look at the planet's weather systems, helping forecasters create more accurate climate outlooks. A suite of imagers and sounders will take pictures of cloud formations and detect sea surface temperatures, air temperatures and moisture. The craft also carries a radar designed to monitor ice in the polar regions to aid navigation.
The 6,000-pound satellite is a replacement for the Meteor 3-M1 observatory launched in 2001. That spacecraft failed a few years ago, forcing Russia to rely on foreign weather satellites.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 35865U 09049A 13340.06607688 -.00000007 00000-0 16068-4 0 489
2 35865 098.5798 028.0643 0001979 316.4523 043.6513 14.21899989218898
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for METEOR-M
