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Himawari-8

Himawari-8 transformed real-time weather imagery over the western Pacific with frequent full-disk scans. Its data is central for typhoon tracking, aviation and regional forecasting.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Weather

TYPE

Geo Dish

COUNTRY

Japan

OPERATOR

JMA

LAUNCH DATE

Oct 7, 2014

LAUNCH SITE

TANSC

ORBIT CLASS

GEO

ALTITUDE · KM

35,787

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

1,436.1

INCLINATION · DEG

0.02

APOGEE · KM

35,791

PERIGEE · KM

35,782

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