Meteorology Space Systems

Overview

Defense Meteorological Support Program [DMSP]
DMSP 1
DMSP 2
DMSP 3
DMSP 4
DMSP 5A
DMSP 5B
DMSP 5C
DMSP 5D

NPOESS
DWS Defense Weather Satellite
JPSS Joint Polar Satellite System

Geosat
Geosat Follow-On [GFO]

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)

User Equipment

• AN/SMQ-11 Satellite Receiver
• AN/FMQ-14 DMSP Mark IIA Van
• AN/TMQ-35 DMSP MARK IV Van
• AN/TMQ-37 DMSP MARK III Van
• AN/UMQ-13 DMSP MARK IVB Van
• MIST Meteorological Information Standard Terminal
• IMETS Integrated Meterological System

Other Resources

• DMSP Homepage @ USAF LAAFB
• DMSP Homepage @ NOAA
• Oceanographer of the Navy (CNO N096) Home Page
  • Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center
  • Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC)

• MAGTF Meteorology & Oceanography (METOC) Support Marine Corps Warfighting Publication MCWP 3-35.7
• METOC Effects Smart Book

• DMSP Overview The Aerospace Corporation July 03, 1997

• Inquiry into the Feasibility of Weather Reconnaissance from a Satellite Vehicle RAND CORPORATION APRIL 1951
• Spacecast 2020 - 21ST CENTURY WEATHER SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE
• Spacecast 2020 - SPACE-BASED SOLAR MONITORING AND ALERT SATELLITE SYSTEM (SMASS)
• Spacecast 2020 - SPACE WEATHER SUPPORT FOR COMMUNICATIONS
• Air Force 2025 - Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

• Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Imagery -- real-time weather satellite pictures of Earth with an interactive viewer. You can animate satellite views at low-resolution as well as get image sequences on-demand for your point of interest. Images are broadcast every 30 minutes by the GOES weather satellite and posted by the NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC).
• Operational Significant Event Imagery imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data available at NOAA
• Composite Satellite Image of the World by Intellicast
• METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images
• GMS images @ Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center West
• NOAA polar orbiting satellite images @ NERC Satellite Station web page

• Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
• NOSC METOC Web
• Air Force Global Weather Central Home Page
• The METOC Page -- NPS
• The Weather Channel Home Page

Satellite Weather Support
in the Gulf War

News

• DMSP transferring control of satellites to NOAA : Jul 15, 1998
• First satellite-flying unit inactivated : Jun 12, 1998 -- The 6th Space Operations Squadron inactivated June 11 at Offutt. The squadron controlled the workhorse weather-satellite system of the U.S. military -- the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, known as DMSP.
• Air Force turns over weather satellite control to NOAA : Jun 2, 1998 (AFNS) -- Air Force Space Command and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration combined operations of their separate weather satellite systems into a single system May 29.