Current Status of EUMETSAT satellite missions - WMO

Current Status of EUMETSAT satellite missions

Ken Holmlund Meteorological Operations Division [email protected]

PSTG-2 12 – 14 June, Geneva, Switzerland

Content of talk:

EUMETSAT Polar System Status - Metop-A status - Dual Metop (A/B) operations - Metop-B launch date EUMETSAT Geostationary System Status -Current satellites (MFG and MSG) - MTG Third Party Services - Operational Agencies (NOAA, CMA, JMA, etc) - R&D satellites (Oceansat-2, GCOM-W1, Megha-Tropiques, CFOSAT, etc) Slide: 2

Metop-A Status (Launched October 2006) •

DHSA: Redundant CCU I/O Board Recovered after last PLSOL

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HRPT:B unit in restricted operation. Complete longitudinal coverage zone active since 18th January 2011 (No transmission at higher latitudes in both hemispheres)

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AMSU A1: Channel 7 is declared failed

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MHS Local oscillator swap has improved H3/4 NEDT, but trend still continues – out of spec ca. Mid/late 2013

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A-DCS: frequency complaints - no requests to stop operations.

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GOME throughput loss in UV continues

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Objective of the Metop-A Lifetime Extension Review • Confirm that the Metop-A lifetime can be safely and usefully extended through the planned Out-of-Plane Manoeuvre in Q1 2013 • Assess the feasibility and need to extend Metop-A lifetime until the end of commissioning of Metop-C, thereby enabling a continuous dual-Metop operational scenario following the commissioning of Metop-B. • Assess the Metop-A End-of-Life scenario implications of the necessary lifetime extension to achieve the above and their compliance with the EUMETSAT space debris guidelines (under construction). Slide: 4

Contents of the Review Overview of the factors under consideration Orbital positioning Metop-A,B,C planning User needs for both Metop-A+ B products Need for satellite standby support Metop-A health status and outlook Approach to assessing feasibility of EOL operations Assessment of OOP Manoeuvre Planning and EOL implications including survivability (FDF presentation) • Compliance to EUMETSAT draft debris guidelines • Operations costs for extension • Recommendations vs. Objectives • • • • • • •

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Compliance to Draft EUMETSAT Space Debris Guidelines & ISO 24113 • Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines are under construction within EUMETSAT. • The applicable standard to these guidelines is ISO 24113. • not formally applicable to Metop (old satellite design) – best effort basis

• Note that the casualty risk is not stated in this ISO standard (nor in the IADC recommendations). • Both NASA Safety Standards for Space Debris Mitigation as well as ESA requirements limit the casualty risk to less than 10-4 [persons per event]. According to these requirements, if total risk is higher than this, uncontrolled re-entry is not allowed.

• Other aspects of the guidelines / ISO standard should be compliant based on the FDF analysis, using the methods applied by CNES for French law compliance. Slide: 6

MHS Channels 3 & 4 Degradation

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GOME-2 degradation SMR spectra for all four main channels, for the whole reference period and normalised to January 2007.

=> Reprocessing: New data set (G2RP‐R2) available this summer Slide: 8

GOME-2

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EPS-Metop Orbit Position Planning (with no LTAN drift) 225 180 135 90 Phase (degrees)

Fuel required to manoeuvre Metop-C as shown has negligible impact on lifetime

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Metop-A Metop-B Metop-C Nom Ext B-U Deorb

Metop‐B EOL Metop-C commissioning on intermediate phase

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====== Acquisition and commissioning ______ Nominal Mission/Primary Satellite ______ Nominal Mission Extension/Primary Satellite - - - - - - Extended Mission/Back-up Satellite . . . . . . . Relocation before EOL/Unused Satellite

Metop‐A  EOL

Low Earth Orbit Planning • 2011: • Antarctic Data Acquisition Demonstration Service (McMurdo) to improve data timeliness (9 out of 14 orbits) • Validation of combined Metop-A/B operations • 2012: • Metop-B launch, commissioning and routine ops start • 2014: • ADA Operational Service Start (all orbits, Q1/2) • 2013/2014 – Q1 2013: Metop-B to become primary operational satellite (ADA timeliness). – Sentinel-3A Launch (baseline Apr 2014), operations start Oct 2014 – Jason-3 Launch (Oct2014)

– Beyond 2014 – Metop-C – Jason CS 2018

– EPS Second Generation Slide: 11

– EUMETSAT Council July 2012 -> ESA Ministerial

Meteosat Long-Term Planning Perspective 2011

2012

N D

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2013

2014

J F M A M J J A S O N D

J F M A M J J A S O N D

MSG-3 Commissioning

2015 J F M A M J J A S O N D

MSG-4 Commissioning

2016

2017

J F M A M J J A S O N D

J F M A M J J A S O N D

Met-11 IOS

2018 J F M A M

MTG-I1 Commissioning

3.4ºW

• MSG-3 Launch

• Met-11 drift start

• Met-10 drift start • MSG-4 Launch

• MTG-I1 Launch

Met-9 0º

• Met-10 drift start • Met-11 drift stop

• Met-9 drift start • Met-10 drift stop

Met-11

3.5ºE (tbc)

Met-9

• Met-8 at 3° inclination

Met-8 9.5ºE

Met-10 • Met-9 RSS stop/Drift start • Met-10 drift stop/RSS start 57.5ºE

Met-7

Met-8

Met-7 • Met-8 takes over IODC

63ºE

• Met-8 at 5° NS inclination

• Met-8 RSS stop/Drift start • Met-9 drift stop/RSS start

67.5ºE

N D

2011

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J F M A M J J A S O N D

2012

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2013

• Met-7 disposal

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2014

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2015

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2016 Slide 12

J F M A M J J A S O N D

2017

J F M A M

2018

MTG: Flexible combined Imager (FCI) FCI main characteristics: • Coverage area: Full disc (FDC), FDC/2, FDC/3, FDC/4 • Instantaneous field of view 210 km north-south swath (with 30 km overlap). • Scanning alternately E-W and W-E, FDC in 10 minutes. • Calibration: black body, MND solar filter • Scan mirror with east-west and north-south axes. • Spatial Sampling Distance: 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 km • Spectral Channels: 4 @ HRFI, 12 @ FDHSI spatial resolutions, 1 fire channel • Data rate ~65 Mbps, mass ~290 kg, power ~510 W. • Heritage Europe: SEVIRI. HRFI = High Resolution Fast Imagery mission FDHSI = Full Disc High Spectral resolution Imagery mission Slide: 13

MTG: Lightning Imager (LI) LI main characteristics: • Coverage about equal to visible disc (instantaneous view). • Continuous measurements of triggered events / lightning triggered events. • Continuous measurements of background images, typically one every minute. • Datarate currently 30 Mbps, could be increased (e.g. 60 Mbps). • Ground pixel size required < 10 km at 45 degrees north latitude and subsatellite longitude, could be 3 px. Polarisation sensitivity