GOSAT-GW Satellite:
Japan launched the GOSAT-GW Satellite from the Tanegashima Space Centre.
- The Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle (GOSAT-GW) is a Japanese Earth observation satellite .
- It was launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
- It is carrying two instruments onboard: the Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3 (TANSO-3), and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR3).
- It was launched by using an H-2A
- Objectives
- Monitoring atmospheric global-mean concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs),
- Verifying national anthropogenic GHG emissions inventories,
- Detecting GHG emissions from large sources, such as megacities and power plants.
- The satellite will be in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 666 km with a repeat cycle of three days.
