Fengyun
Sign in to saveFēngyún (FY, ) are China's meteorological satellites. Launched since 1988 into polar Sun-synchronous and geosynchronous orbit, each three-axis stabilized Fengyun satellite is built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) and operated by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). To date, China has launched twenty-one Fengyun satellites in four classes (FY-1 through FY-4). Fengyun 1 and Fengyun 3 satellites are in polar, Sun-synchronous orbit and Low Earth orbit while Fengyun 2 and 4 are geosynchronous orbit.
Key facts
- Space program.name
- Fengyun
- Space program.image
- 20090829 Model of Fengyun-2 4002.JPG
- Space program.caption
- Model of FY-2 in Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
- Space program.country
- People's Republic of China
- Space program.purpose
- Meteorology
- Space program.status
- Active
- Space program.firstflight
- 6 September 1988
- Space program.native_name_a
- 风云卫星
- Space program.native_name_r
- Fēngyún Wèixīng
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Classes
- Fengyun 1
- Destruction of FY-1C
- Fengyun 2
- Fengyun 3
- Fengyun 4
- List of satellites
- See also
- References
- External links
Fēngyún (FY, ) are China's meteorological satellites. Launched since 1988 into polar Sun-synchronous and geosynchronous orbit, each three-axis stabilized Fengyun satellite is built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) and operated by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). To date, China has launched twenty-one Fengyun satellites in four classes (FY-1 through FY-4). Fengyun 1 and Fengyun 3 satellites are in polar, Sun-synchronous orbit and Low Earth orbit while Fengyun 2 and 4 are geosynchronous orbit.
On 11 January 2007, China destroyed one of these satellites (FY-1C, COSPAR 1999-025A) in a test of an anti-satellite missile. According to NASA, the intentional destruction of FY-1C created more than 3,000 high-velocity debris items, a larger amount of dangerous space debris than any other space mission in history.