Himawari 8

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Himawari 8
Rendering of Himawari 8 and 9
Mission typeWeather satellite
OperatorJMA
COSPAR ID2014-060A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.40267
Mission duration8 years (planned)
Spacecraft properties
solar array
Start of mission
Launch date7 October 2014, 05:16 (2014-10-07UTC05:16Z) UTC
RocketH-IIA 202
Launch siteTanegashima LA-Y1
ContractorMitsubishi Heavy Industries
Entered service7 July 2015, 02:00 UTC[1]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeGeostationary
Longitude140.7° East
Perigee altitude35,791 km (22,239 mi)[2]
Apogee altitude35,795 km (22,242 mi)[2]
Inclination0.03 degrees[2]
Period1436.13 minutes[2]
Epoch22 January 2015, 22:13:28 UTC[2]
 

Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) is a Japanese

MTSAT-2
(Himawari 7) which was launched in 2006.

Launch

Himawari 8 was launched atop a H-IIA rocket flying from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex Pad 1 at the Tanegashima Space Center.[4] The launch occurred at 05:16 UTC on 7 October 2014 and reached its operational geostationary orbit in October 2014, at 35,786 kilometers[5] and 140.7 degrees East.[6]

Himawari 9, which is identical to Himawari 8, was launched on 2 November 2016 and placed in a stand-by orbit until 05:00 UTC by 13 December 2022, when it succeeded Himawari 8.[7][8]

Purpose

The role of Himawari 8 is to provide typhoon, rainstorm, weather forecast and other related reports for Japan, East Asia, and Western Pacific region. It is also responsible for ensuring the safety of ships, aviation and observing the environment of the earth.[9]

Its temporal and spatial resolution enables it to observe disastrous events in remote places, such as volcanic eruptions. The Himawari satellite was able to capture the

Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption in 2022.[11]

Data recorded from the Japanese Himawari 8 will be made freely available for use by meteorological agencies in other countries.[12]

Design

The DS2000 satellite bus has a lifespan of 15 years, however the expected operational lifespan of Himawari 8 is expected to be limited by its instruments which are only designed for 8 years of service. At launch, the mass of the satellite was about 3,500 kilograms (7,700 lb). Power is supplied by a single gallium arsenide solar panel, which provides up to 2.6 kilowatts of power.[13]

Instruments

The primary instrument aboard Himawari 8, the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI), is a 16 channel

T, and -U satellites. The AHI can produce images with a resolution down to 500m and can provide full disk observations every 10 mins and images of Japan every 2.5 minutes.[13] The Australian Bureau of Meteorology CEO Dr Rob Vertessy stated that Himawari 8 "generates about 50 times more data than the previous satellite".[12] A recent study reported that Himawari-8 had acquired cloud-free observations every 4 days, while capturing the seasonal changes of vegetation in the cloud-prone region of Southeast Asia more accurately than before.[14]

Imager Specifications[15]
Wavelength

(μm)

Band

number

Spatial

resolution

at SSP (km)

Central wavelength (μm)
0.47 1 1 0.47063
0.51 2 1 0.51000
0.64 3 0.5 0.63914
0.86 4 1 0.85670
1.6 5 2 1.6101
2.3 6 2 2.2568
3.9 7 2 3.8853
6.2 8 2 6.2429
6.9 9 2 6.9410
7.3 10 2 7.3467
8.6 11 2 8.5926
9.6 12 2 9.6372
10.4 13 2 10.4073
11.2 14 2 11.2395
12.4 15 2 12.3806
13.3 16 2 13.2807

The Space Environmental Data Acquisition Monitor (SEDA) is the second instrument aboard Himawari 8, and it consists of two sensors: SEDA-e for detecting high energy

Saitama, Japan with a Ka-band signal and is ultimately provided to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for use monitoring space weather events along the Japanese meridian.[16][18]

Gallery

  • Liftoff of the H-IIA rocket carrying Himawari 8 on October 7, 2014
    Liftoff of the H-IIA rocket carrying Himawari 8 on October 7, 2014
  • The first true-color PNG image from Himawari 8 on January 25, 2015
    The first
    true-color
    PNG image from Himawari 8 on January 25, 2015
  • Example of a Rayleigh-corrected, true-color full disk image created from the AHI sensor
    Example of a Rayleigh-corrected, true-color full disk image created from the AHI sensor

References

  1. ^ "静止気象衛星「ひまわり８号」の運用開始日について" (in Japanese). Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Peat, Chris (22 January 2015). "HIMAWARI 8 - Orbit". Heavens-Above. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ^ Graham, William (6 October 2014). "Japan lofts Himawari 8 weather satellite via H-IIA rocket". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ^ Clark, Stephen. "H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Satellite: Himawari-8". OSCAR.
  6. ^ "JMA/MSC: Himawari-8/9". Japan Meteorological Agency. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  7. ^ 衛星観測は「ひまわり８号」から「ひまわり９号」へ (in Japanese). Japan Meteorological Agency. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) | Switchover of the Operational Satellite". www.data.jma.go.jp. Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  9. ^ "New geostationary meteorological satellites — Himawari-8/9 —" (PDF). 19 May 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Tianjin explosions visible from space". The Guardian. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Tsunami hits Tonga after massive volcano eruption seen from space". YouTube.
  12. ^ a b "Spectacular new era in satellite meteorology unveiled". Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Commonwealth of Australia. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  13. ^ a b c "New geostationary meteorological satellites — Himawari-8/9 —" (PDF). Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  14. PMID 31666582
    .
  15. ^ "JMA/MSC: Himawari-8/9 Imager (AHI)". www.data.jma.go.jp. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  16. ^
    S2CID 54863699
    .
  17. ^
    ISSN 1542-7390
    .
  18. doi:10.2151/jmsj.2016-009
    .

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