Revised: 7 January 2009 1997 - 2004

1997 1998 1999 2000

OrbView-21 TRMM Landsat 7 QuikScat Terra ACRIMSAT NMP/EO-1 8/1/97 11/27/97 4/15/99 6/19/99 (AM) 12/20/99 11/21/00 12/18/99 705 km 402 km 705 km 803 km 713 km, 672 km 705 km 98.2° 35° 98.2° 98.6° 705 km 98.1° 98.2° 12:00 PM 10:05 AM 6 AM, 6PM 98.1° 10:00 AM 10:01 AM • CERES 10:30 AM • • • • LIS ETM+ • ACRIM3 SeaWiFS SeaWinds • • ALI • VIRS CERES (2) • • Hyperion • MISR TMI • • LAC MODIS • PR (Japan) • ASTER (Japan)

• MOPITT (Canada)

2001 2002 2003 2004

× QuikTOMS Jason-1 METEOR ESSP/ Aqua ADEOS II ICESat SORCE Aura 9/21/01 (France) 3M/SAGE III GRACE (PM) 1/12/03 1/25/03 (CHEM) 12/7/01 (Russia) (Midori II) 7/15/04 (U.S./Germany) 5/4/02 (Japan) 12/10/01 640 km 800 km 3/17/02 12/13/02 600 km 705 km 97.3° 1336 km 705 km 94° 40° 66° 98.2° 10:30 AM 1020 km 460 km 98.2° 803 km • TIM 1:45 PM 99.5° • GLAS • JMR 89° 1:30 PM 98.6° • SIM • • GPS • MLS TOMS • 9:30 AM • TRSR • GPS • 10:15 AM SOLSTICE • TES • AIRS LRA • HAIRS • • XPS • SAGE III AMSU-A • SeaWinds • USO • • • CERES (2) HIRDLS (UK/US) Poseidon 2 • • MODIS • AMSR • OMI DORIS • SCA • GLI (Netherlands/ (France) (Denmark) • HSB (Brazil) • ILAS-2 Finland) (Japan) • SSA (France) • AMSR-E (Japan) • POLDER (France)

Spacecraft not provided or is partly provided by NASA 1 OrbView-2 is not provided or operated by NASA bu t is a data buy Currently in orbit Launch Failure Items in italics not funded by NASA ×

Revised: 7 October 2009 2005 - 2017

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

ESSP/ ESSP/ OSTM ESSP/OCO ESSP/ Glory CloudSat CALIPSO (France) 02/24/09 Aquarius 10/1/10 6/20/08 (Argentina) (France) 705 km 705 km 05/22/10 705 km 4/26/06 1336 km 98.2° 98.2° 66° 1:15 PM 657 km 98.2° 705 km 1:30 PM 1:30 PM 98.0° 98.2° • Three grating • APS • AMR spectrometers 6:00 AM • CPR 1:30 PM • GPSP • CC (US/Canada) • • CALIOP • LRA • LBR TIM • • WFC LBS • Poseidon-3 Altimeter • (France) IIR • DORIS(France)

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

GPM ICESat-II NPP SMAP LDCM NPOESS C1 GPM NPOESS C2 LIO Core 2015 1/16/11 2012 12/12 (IPO) (IPO) 1/13 6/14 11/14 1/16 824 km 705 km 670 km 635 km 407 km 833 km 97.1° 98.2° 833 km 6 AM, 6 PM 40° 65° • GLAS 98.7° 1:30 PM 10:30 AM 98.7° • GPS • • • • GMI • GMI A-DCS* • ATMS L-band radio- ADCS-SARSAT* meter • OLI • • DPR (Japan) • MIS* • CERES ATMS* • CERES* • SARSAT* • VIIRS* • L-band radar • CrIS* • VIIRS* • CrIS* • MIS • OMPS* • OMPS-Nadir* • SARSAT* • SEM-N* • TSIS* • VIIRS*

Spacecraft not provided by NASA * Instrument provided jointly with the Integrated Program Office (IPO)

Currently in orbit Future mission Launch Failure

Items in italics not funded by NASA Mission Profile 1997 – 2004 Acronym List ACRIMSAT Landsat 7 • ACRIM3 - Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor • ETM+ - Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus

ADEOS II (Midori II) METEOR 3M/SAGE III • AMSR - Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer SAGE • GLI - Global Imager • III - Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III • ILAS-2 - Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer 2 • POLDER - Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances NMP/EO-1 Aqua New Millennium Program/Earth Observing-1 • AIRS - Atmospheric Infrared Sounder • ALI - Advanced Land Imager • AMSU-A - Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A • Hyperion - Hyperspectral Instrument • CERES - Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System • LAC - Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) Atmospheric Corrector • MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer • HSB - Humidity Sounder for Brazil • AMSR-E - Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS OrbView-2 • SeaWiFS - Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Aura • HIRDLS - High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder QuikScat • MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder Quick Scatterometer • OMI - Ozone Monitoring Instrument • SeaWinds • TES - Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer

QuikTOMS ESSP/GRACE • TOMS - Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Earth System Science Pathfinder/Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment • GPS - Black-Jack Global Positioning System Receiver SORCE • HAIRS - High-Accuracy Inter-satellite Ranging System Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment • SCA - Star Camera Assembly • SSA - SuperStar Accelerometer • TIM - Total Irradiance Monitor • USO - Ultra Stable Oscillator • SIM - Spectral Irradiance Monitor • SOLSTICE - Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment • XPS - XUV Photometer System ICESat • GLAS - Geoscience Laser Altimeter System • GPS - Global Positioning System Terra • ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer • CERES - Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Jason-1 • MISR - Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer • JMR - Jason Microwave Radiometer • MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer • TRSR - Turbo Rogue Space Receiver • MOPITT - Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere • LRA - Laser Retroreflector Array • DORIS - Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite • Poseidon-2 Altimeter Mission Profile 1997 – 2004 Acronym List (cont.) TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission • CERES - Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System • LIS - Lightning Imaging Sensor • VIRS - Visible and Infrared Scanner • TMI - TRMM Microwave Imager • PR - Precipitation Radar Mission Profile 2005 – 2017 Acronym List

ESSP/Aquarius OSTM • LBR - L-Band Radiometer Ocean Surface Topography Mission • LBS - L-Band Scatterometer • DORIS - Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite • TRSR - TurboRogue Space Receiver • LRA - Laser Retroreflector Array ESSP/CALIPSO • Poseidon-3 Altimeter Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations • AMR - Advanced Microwave Radiometer • CALIOP - Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization • GPSP - Global Positioning System Payload • IIR - Imaging Infrared Radiometer • WFC - Wide Field Camera • Three high-resolution grating spectrometers NPOESS C1

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System ESSP/Cloudsat • ADCS-SARSAT - Advanced Data Collection System/Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking • ATMS - Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder • CPR - Cloud Profiling Radar • CERES - Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System • CrIS - Cross-Track Infrared Sounder • MIS - Microwave Imager/Sounder ESSP/OCO • OMPS-Nadir - Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Orbiting Carbon Observatory • SARSAT - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking • SEM-N - Space Environment Monitor-NPOESS • TSIS - Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Glory • VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite • APS - Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor • TIM - Total Irradiance Monitor • CC - Cloud Camera NPOESS C2 National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System GPM Core Observatory • A-DCS • MIS Global Precipitation Measurement • SARSAT - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking • DPR - Dual Frequency Precipitation Radar • VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite • GMI - GPM Microwave Imager NPP GPM Low-Inclination Observatory NPOESS Preparatory Project Global Precipitation Measurement • ATMS - Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder • GMI - GPM Microwave Imager • CERES - Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System • CrIS - Cross-Track Infrared Sounder • OMPS - Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite ICESat II • VIIRS - Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite • GLAS - Geoscience Laser Altimeter System • GPS - Global Positioning System SMAP Soil Moisture Active Passive LDCM • L-Band radiometer Landsat Data Continuity Mission • L-Band radar • OLI - Operational Land Imager