Dong Fang Hong 135

Also called Feng Yun 2-08, FY 2-08, FY-2G

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General

Designation	40367 / 14090A
Launch date	31 Dec 2014
Country of origin	China
Mission	Meteorology
Geostationary orbit	99°E
Launch vehicle	Long March 3 #195

In the FY-2 series, this satellite is reported to have 25 technical improvments

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Location

Begin	End	Position
L:		99°E
Jul 2015	Apr 2018	104.4°E
Apr 2018		99°E

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Technical data

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Carries 2 main instruments:

The scanning radiometer has two infrared long wave channels, one infrared medium wave channel, one visible spectrum channel and one water vapour channel could take a full disk image covering one third of Earth surface per half an hour during flood season and per hour in other periods, and could realise high-frequency continuous observation every 6 minutes for any region.

The space environment monitor is able to develop monitoring for solar X-ray, high- energy proton, high-energy electron, high-energy heavy particle flow.

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