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DMSP POES
run by the department of defense

[Image: dmsp poes spacecraft (34K)] The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is run by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
Image provided by: DMSP Homepage

The DMSP program designs, builds, launches, and maintains several near polar orbiting, sun synchronous satellites monitoring the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments.

DMSP satellites are in a near polar, sun synchronous orbit approximately 830 kilometers above the earth. Each satellite crosses any point on the earth twice a day and has an orbital period of about 101 minutes, thus providing complete global coverage every six hours. Each DMSP satellite monitors the atmospheric, oceanographic and solar-geophysical environment of the Earth.

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Credits and Acknowledgments for WW2010.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.