Tuesday, July 14, 2009

NOAA-17

 2002-032A


NOAA M was launched by Titan II in 2002, becoming NOAA 17. It wil go to a 1000LT southbound equator crossing to optimize vegetation mapping, instead of the 0730LT used by earlier NOAA morning satellite.

NOAA M is 4.2m long 1.9m dia with a 6.1m solar panel array. Mass is 2232 kg launch, including 757 kg of fuel in the 42.38 kN Star XFP, which burns for 51s.

NOAA M was the last NOAA to be completed at East Windsor before the transfer to Sunnyvale in 1998.


NOAA M 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2002 Jun 24  1823:04 Launch by Titan II  V SLC4W 
  T+2:31 St 1 MECO 
  T+2:32 St 1 sep, St 2 burn 
  T+3:38 Fairing sep
 1828:33 T+5:29 St 2 MECO 
 1829:35 T+6:31 Stage 2 sep  -2500? x 820 
 1837:44 T+14:40 Star 37XFP AKM burn 
 1838:35 T+15:31 AKM burnout 
 1838:40 T+15:36 AOCS trim burn 
 1839:04 T+16:00 end AOCS burn  101.19 807 x 822 x 98.8 
  T+20:43 Solar array deploy 
  T+22:13 Boom deploy 
2006 Aug   AM Primary 

Payload:

  • AVHRR/3 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

  • HRPT/3 High Resolution Picture Transmission

  • AMSU-A1 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

  • AMSU-A2 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

  • AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

  • SBUV/2 Solar Backscatter UV Radiometer 2

  • SEM/2 Solar Environment Monitor

  • DCS/2 Data Collection System

  • HRIRS High Res IR Sounder

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