Odin is a multinational atmosphere-studying satellite mission which launched on 20 February 2001 and remains operational.
|Orbit Height||620 km|
|Orbit Type||Sun-synchronous polar|
Odin is part of ESA's
Odin is a multinational atmosphere-studying satellite mission which launched on 20 February 2001 and remains operational.
|Orbit Height||620 km|
|Orbit Type||Sun-synchronous polar|
Odin is part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, in which ESA has an agreement to distribute data products from the mission.
The Odin mission objectives are mainly astronomy and aeronomy applications (atmospheric research: observation of stratospheric ozone chemistry, mesospheric ozone science, summer mesospheric science, coupling of atmospheric regions).
SMR (Submillimeter wave Radiometer)
SMR is a passive microwave limb sounder.
|Type||Single sideband heterodyne receivers (use of InP material)|
118.25 - 119.25 GHz, 486.1 - 503.9 GHz, 541 - 580.4 GHz
100 MHz to 1 GHz
0.1 MHz to 1 MHz
1 K in 1 MHz with S/N = 5 afte