Mission
Table 3. ECOSTRESS Mission Characteristics
Parameter | Value |
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Launch Vehicle | SpaceX 15 |
Launch Date | June 29, 2018 @ 5:42am, 42sec EDT (9:42:42 UTC) |
Mission Extension | One year 2019-2020, with proposal to extend mission additional years pending senior review. |
Data coverage | CONUS, twelve 1,000 x1,000 km key climate zones and twenty-five Fluxnet sites for all opportunities. |
Data collection | On average 1 hour of science data per day |
Payload mass | 490 kg |
Payload power | 516 W |
The ECOSTRESS radiometer has been deployed on International Space Station (ISS) on the Japanese Experiment Module - External Facility (JEM-EF) site 10. At this location, the radiometer scan is perpendicular to the ISS velocity
Figure 1. Japanese Experiment Module on International Space Station
The ECOSTRESS radiometer is located in on of the boxes and shown on Figure 2 below:
Figure 2. ECOSTRESS radiometer in container
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a flyaround of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. ECOSTRESS can be seen in the zoomed in picture-in-picture.