Updated: 07-03-2024
Source: China Meteorological News Press
Launched on December 11, 2016, Fengyun-4A is the first one of China's second-generation geostationary orbit meteorological satellite.
As a scientific research test satellite, Fengyun-4A later undertakes China's geostationary orbit meteorological observation, monitoring the Earth and recording the changes in the sky.
Fengyun-4A is loaded with advanced geostationary orbit radiation imager, interferometric vertical atmospheric sounder, lightning imager and space weather monitoring instrument package and other payloads, realizing the first three-dimensional detection of atmospheric temperature and humidity in geostationary orbit.
In 2017, Fengyun-4A successively released the first batch of images and data, completed in-orbit testing and orbit delivery, marking the renewal of China's geostationary meteorological satellite observation system.
In January 2022, Fengyun-4A officially assumed the duty mission of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters. It plays an important role in monitoring and assessing all types of disasters, such as typhoon, strong convection, floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, droughts, high temperatures, snow and ice disasters, and so on. It plays an indispensable role in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, theEarlyWarningsFor AllInitiative, as well as the international meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation and the service of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
Editor: XU Nenyu