Mission type | Weather |
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Operator | Roscosmos/Roshydromet |
COSPAR ID | 2001-056A |
SATCAT no. | 27001 |
Mission duration | Planned: 3 years In Orbit: 22 years, 11 months and 17 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | VNIIEM |
Launch mass | 2,500 kilograms (5,500 lb) |
Payload mass | 800 kilograms (1,800 lb) |
Power | 800 watts |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 10 December 2001, 17:18:57 | UTC
Rocket | Zenit-2 |
Launch site | Baikonur Site 45/1 |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Decommissioned |
Deactivated | March 2006 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | SSO |
Eccentricity | 0.00135[2] |
Perigee altitude | 1,016 kilometres (631 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 996 kilometres (619 mi) |
Inclination | 99.64 degrees[2] |
Period | 105.3 minutes[2] |
Meteor-3M No.1 was the first and only of the Meteor-3M series polar-orbiting weather satellites. It was launched on 10 December 2001 at 17:18:57 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.[3] The satellite is in a Sun-synchronous orbit with an ascending node time of about 9AM.