Tansat

 2016-081A

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Chinese climate satellite (Tan = 'carbon'), to map global CO2 sources and sinks with a precision of 1 percent.

The spectrometer will obtain column-averaged CO2 abundance, with CAI data used to apply corrections for clouds.

Tansat
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2016 Dec 21	1922	Launch by CZ-2D Y33	JQ
	1928	St 2 MECO
	1930	St 2 VECO
	1935?	Tansat sep	94.54 488 x 504 x 97.4
	1936?	SECM subsats sep

Payload:

• CarbonSpec High resolution grating spectrometer, three bands, 0.76mu (02), 1.61mu (CO2), 2.06mu (CO2). 20 km swath, 2km res

• CAPI Cloud and Aerosol Imager, wide FOV imaging spectrometer with 5 bands 0.38 to 1.61 mu and two polarization channels.