The Himawari (ひまわり, “sunflower”) geostationary satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), support weather forecasting, tropical cyclone...

Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency...

Becky "Himawari" (ひまわり), a song by Yusuke Kamiji "Himawari" (向日葵), a song by Mr. Children Himawari (satellite), a series of Japanese weather satellites This...

Mitsubishi Electric, and is the second of two similar satellites to be based on the DS-2000 bus. Himawari 9 was launched on 2 November 2016, 06:20:00 UTC,...

images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing...

Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) were a series of weather and aviation control satellites. They are replaced by Himawari 8 on 7 July 2015. They...

forecasts. The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward. Geostationary satellites followed, beginning with the ATS and...

series satellites were designed for five years of operation. BS-2a was moved to a graveyard orbit in 1989, as was BS-2b in 1992. BS satellites were used...

are located. Weather satellites are also placed in this orbit for real-time monitoring and data collection, and navigation satellites to provide a known...

observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used...

is planned for 2023 with seven satellites. In May 2023 it was announced that the system would expand to eleven satellites. In 2002, the Japanese government...

Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari satellites, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites' two Meteosats, and Soviet...

Prefecture, Japan, where the launch site was located. Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes Spaceflight portal "Ohsumi". NASA NSSDC Master Catalog...

Station (C-TARS) and servicing geostationary meteorological satellites, servicing Japan's Himawari or GMS-4 and GMS-5. In August [2016], the BoM installed...

Sun-synchronous orbit as the third in the satellite formation called the "A Train" with several other satellites (OCO-2, the Japanese GCOM W1, PARASOL, CALIPSO...

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), also called Daichi (a Japanese word meaning "land"), was a 3810 kg Japanese satellite launched in 2006. After...

Information Gathering Satellite (情報収集衛星, Jōhō Shūshū Eisei) are the satellites of the Japanese spy satellite program. It was started as a response to the...

session. LAGEOS Starlette and Stella List of passive satellites List of laser ranging satellites "NASDA". Archived from the original on 2006-01-15. Retrieved...

Multi-functional Satellite Augmentation System (MTSAT or MSAS) is a Japanese satellite based augmentation system (SBAS), i.e. a satellite navigation system...

enlarged. Data provided by MetService, Image enhancement by Metvuw, Himawari satellite data courtesy of Japanese Meteorological Agency. 3 panels each showing...

it signed a contract with iQPS for the launch of two satellites. IA said that the two satellites will be launched on the sixth launch of Epsilon. In a...

also be measured using satellite imagery from geostationary satellites equipped with high-resolution image sensors such as Himawari-8. Similar to traditional...

satellites, and the inability to compete with the lower prices of satellites mass-produced in the West, made it so that the successor to the Himawari...

December 2023. Bessho, K. (26 April 2023). Status of Himawari-8/9 and their follow-on satellite Himawari-10. CGMS-51. JMA. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2023...

mission will be split into smaller satellites. Altogether GCOM will be a series of six satellites. The first satellite, GCOM-W (Shizuku), was launched on...

swath, as well as continuous imaging capability. Among them, the radar satellites are equipped with the PALSAR series of L-band synthetic aperture radar...

Anders aboard Apollo 8 First images of Earth from space Himawari 8 and 9, geostationary satellites that produce an image of the Earth's full face every 10...

Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), also known as Ibuki (Japanese: いぶき, Hepburn: Ibuki, meaning "breath"), is an Earth observation satellite and the world's...

Radar Observation, the Observation and the Satellite Observation mainly using the Himawari series of satellites. The Marine Observatories are seated in Hakodate...

Tokyo Institute of Technology 32nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites 2018 Variable Shape Attitude Control Demonstration with Microsat "HIBARI"...