EARTH RESOURCES SATELLITES

Earth resource satellites have the mission to monitor Earth's oceans, ice caps, and coastal regions etc. They provide systematic, repetitive global measurements of wind speed and direction, wave height, surface temperature, surface altitude, cloud cover, and atmospheric water vapor level etc.

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Name	NORAD ID	Int'l Code	Launch date	Period [minutes]
RESURS O1-N4	25394	1998-043A	July 10, 1998	101
FASAT B	25395	1998-043B	July 10, 1998	100.9
SCD 2	25504	1998-060A	October 23, 1998	99.6
LANDSAT 7	25682	1999-020A	April 15, 1999	98.4
KITSAT 3	25756	1999-029A	May 26, 1999	98.9
TUBSAT	25757	1999-029B	May 26, 1999	99.1
IRS P4 (OCEANSAT 1)	25758	1999-029C	May 26, 1999	98.9
QUIKSCAT	25789	1999-034A	June 20, 1999	99.2
OKEAN O	25860	1999-039A	July 17, 1999	97.3
IKONOS 2	25919	1999-051A	September 24, 1999	96.2
CBERS 1	25940	1999-057A	October 14, 1999	100.2
KOMPSAT	26032	1999-070A	December 21, 1999	97.5
EO 1	26619	2000-075A	November 21, 2000	98
SAC C	26620	2000-075B	November 21, 2000	98.4
JASON	26997	2001-055A	December 7, 2001	112.1
METEOR 3M	27001	2001-056A	December 10, 2001	105.2
BADR B	27003	2001-056C	December 10, 2001	105.1
MAROC TUBSAT	27004	2001-056D	December 10, 2001	105.1
ENVISAT	27386	2002-009A	March 1, 2002	100.1
SPOT 5	27421	2002-021A	May 4, 2002	99
HAIYANG 1	27430	2002-024A	May 15, 2002	100.5
ALSAT 1	27559	2002-054A	November 28, 2002	97.4
ADEOS 2	27597	2002-056A	December 14, 2002	100.7
MONITOR-E/SL-19	27840	2003-031A	June 30, 2003	100
IRS P6	28051	2003-046A	October 17, 2003	100.3
CBERS 2	28057	2003-049A	October 21, 2003	100.2
TANSUO 1	28220	2004-012A	April 18, 2004	93.7
AURA	28376	2004-026A	July 15, 2004	98.5
TANSUO 2	28479	2004-046A	November 18, 2004	98.2
CARTOSAT-1	28649	2005-017A	May 5, 2005	96.6
TOPSAT	28891	2005-043B	October 27, 2005	98.3
ALOS	28931	2006-002A	January 24, 2006	97.9
RESURS DK-1	29228	2006-021A	June 15, 2006	95.1
KOMPSAT 2	29268	2006-031A	July 28, 2006	98.3
CARTOSAT 2A	32783	2008-021A	April 28, 2008	97.3
JASON 2	33105	2008-032A	June 20, 2008	111.8
GEOEYE 1	33331	2008-042A	September 6, 2008	98.3
OCEANSAT 2	35931	2009-051A	September 23, 2009	102.9
YAOGAN 7	36110	2009-069A	December 9, 2009	97.4
YAOGAN 8	36121	2009-072A	December 15, 2009	110.3
YAOGAN 9A	36413	2010-009A	March 5, 2010	107
YAOGAN 9B	36414	2010-009B	March 5, 2010	107
YAOGAN 9C	36415	2010-009C	March 5, 2010	107
CARTOSAT 2B	36795	2010-035A	July 12, 2010	97.4
ALSAT 2A	36798	2010-035D	July 12, 2010	97.7
RESOURCESAT 2	37387	2011-015A	April 20, 2011	101.3
HAIYANG 2A	37781	2011-043A	August 15, 2011	105
SICH 2	37794	2011-044G	August 17, 2011	98.2
ZY 1	38038	2011-079A	December 22, 2011	100.1
RISAT 1	38248	2012-017A	April 26, 2012	91

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