First Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite. WSF-M (Weather System Follow-on - Microwave) is the next-generation operational environmental satellite system for the Department of Defense (DoD), to replace the microwave wavelength weather forecasting capabilities of the DMSP satellites. Ball Aerospace has been selected in late November 2017 to be the prime contractor for 2 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) weather satellites with a passive microwave imaging radiometer instrument and hosted Government furnished energetic charged particle (ECP) sensor space weather payload developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The radiometer leverages the Ball-built Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument. This mission will improve weather forecasting over maritime regions by taking global measurements of the atmosphere and ocean surface. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)

Falcon 9 Block 5

Karte laden (OpenStreetMap)

Kartenvorschau: The Space Devs · Interaktive Karte: OpenStreetMap (laedt erst nach Klick)

• 12.04.2024 Satellite confirmed in operation. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 11.04.2024 Payload deployed (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 11.04.2024 Abheben
• 11.04.2024 Inoffizieller Re-Stream von SPACE AFFAIRS hat begonnen
• 11.04.2024 Weather 95% (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 11.04.2024 GO für den Start.
• 07.04.2024 NET April 11. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 19.03.2024 Delayed to April (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)

Quelle: Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)