China News Service, March 22 (Zheng Yingying and Guo Chaokai) The Chinese satellite family will add new members.
According to a news released by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Shanghai Institute of Aerospace Technology on the 22nd, China’s first satellite dedicated to comprehensive monitoring of the atmospheric environment, the "Atmosphere One" satellite, is about to complete the prototype development and is expected to be shipped and selected in the second half of this year Implement launch.
It is reported that the "Atmosphere One" satellite was developed by the Shanghai Aerospace Technology Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and it is equipped with five instruments (atmospheric detection lidar, high-precision polarization scanner, multi-angle polarization imager, and ultraviolet hyperspectral atmospheric composition. Detector and wide-spectrum imager) will be deployed in sun-synchronous orbit, and the detection accuracy of atmospheric fine particles and carbon dioxide column concentration will reach the international advanced level.
It is understood that China will form a series of "atmospheric" satellites in the future. The most important purpose of this series of satellites is to monitor atmospheric pollution. They will provide remote sensing data support for the ecological environment and other departments, and will also support scientific research on global climate change.
The second satellite in this series of satellites-"Atmosphere II" is a high-precision integrated greenhouse gas detection satellite, which is expected to be the first in the world to achieve active and passive detection functions combined with greenhouse gas monitoring.
"Atmosphere One" is the world's first carbon dioxide monitoring satellite with active detection capabilities.
In the future, "Atmosphere One" will be networked with satellites such as "Atmosphere II" to realize greenhouse gas monitoring and help China achieve carbon emission reduction goals.
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