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FY-3H Satellite

Description

• 8th flight unit of the FY-3 series.
• Main mission: operational meteorology.
• Substantial contribution to global imagery and atmospheric vertical observation.
• Significant contribution to refined global greenhouse gas monitoring.
• Contribution to aurora, ionosphere and other space weather monitoring.

Orbit	Sunsynchronous orbit
Altitude	836 km
ECT	14:00 asc
Launch	2025-09-27
End of service	≥2033

Instruments

Picture	Acronym	Full name
	MERSI-III	Medium Resolution Spectral Imager-III
	HIRAS-II	Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder-II
	MWTS-III	Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder-III
	MWHS-II	Micro-Wave Humidity Sounder-II
	MWRI-II	Micro-Wave Radiation Imager-II
	GNOS-II	GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder-II
	GAS-II	Greenhouse-gases Absorption Spectrometer-II
	IPM-II	Ionospheric PhotoMeter-II
	WAI-II	Wide-field Auroral Imager-II

Products

Instrument	Datasets
MERSI-III	Search
HIRAS-II	Search
MWTS-III	Search
MWHS-II	Search
GNOS-II	Search
IPM-II	Search
WAI-II	Search

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