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- Spacecraft Name
- EarthCARE
- COSPAR ID
- 2024-101A
- Launch Date
- 2024-05-28
- Spacecraft Description
- The EarthCARE mission objective is the observation of clouds and aerosols from low Earth orbit. The payloads of the EarthCARE satellite include the W-band Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), ATLID LIDAR, Broadband Radiometer (BBR), and the Multispectral Imager (MSI). The MSI instrument consists of two parts: the Visible, Near infrared and Short wave infrared (VNS) unit, and the Thermal InfraRed (TIR) unit.
Thermal Analysis
- Analysis Object
- MSI-VNS
- Analysis Description
- N/A
- Software Used
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References
- Doornink et al. (2011)
Jan Doornink and M. Coesel and M. Lemmen and A. van 't Hof, "Thermal design of the EarthCARE MSI-VNS instrument", 41st International Conference on Environmental Systems, 10.2514/6.2011-5071