First images received from the Arctic Weather Satellite
2024-08-30 AAC Clyde Space AB (publ)
The Arctic Weather Satellite has delivered its first images captured by its innovative scientific weather payload supplied by AAC Clyde Space. These first images show atmospheric temperature and humidity, aiming to improve short-term weather forecasts in the Arctic and around the world.
Launched on August 16, the Arctic Weather Satellite is currently being commissioned by OHB Sweden. Its payload, a cross-track scanning microwave radiometer manufactured by AAC Omnisys in Gothenburg, was turned on for the first time in space during the past week for functional testing.
ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite mission for which OHB is mission prime, is designed to show how a potential polar-orbiting constellation of satellites could provide data for very short-term weather forecasts and nowcasts in the Arctic, and around the world. With its cross-track scanning microwave radiometer, the Arctic Weather Satellite mission is to provide measurements of atmospheric humidity and temperature.
The mission is a protype mission that is intended to be followed by a full constellation of satellites to provide more frequent measurement, something that cannot be achieved by larger geostationary satellites currently in use.
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