TES - Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer - Mission Profile: Near-Term Instrument Schedule

TES - Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Website





	-	Instrument

	-	Orbit & Coverage

	-	Ground Data System

	-	Operational Plans

	-	Near-Term Instrument Schedule

	-	Global Survey Schedule

	-	Validation

Mission Profile: Near-Term Instrument Schedule

The 3-nadir scans per sequence Global Surveys resumed on July 3, 2005, still one-day-on followed by one-day-off. There will be one nadir observation every 1.7 degree latitude along the orbits.

Date	Run	Measurement	StartUTC	EndUTC	Predicted Geolocations
Science Observations schedule to be provided in a future update.

TES Global Survey Start Times for Oct2005-Oct2006 (.pdf) Note that TES will perform detector de-ice at about 2-month interval, so a GS (Global Survey) or two will be deleted. Some GS will also be deleted due to maneuver conflicts.