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Meteor-M N2-3

Meteor-M N2-3 is a Russian operational meteorological satellite operated by Roshydromet and built within the Meteor-3M programme, launched on 27 June 2023 into a sun-synchronous orbit at 820 km altitude with a 15:00 ascending equator crossing time. The satellite carries an infrared sounder (IKFS-2), a multispectral imager (KMSS), a medium-resolution scanner (MSU-MR), a microwave radiometer-sounder (MTVZA-GY), a SAR instrument (MeteorSAR), and space-weather monitoring components (GGAK-E, GGAK-M/RIMS-M, SASR-Meteor). WMO OSCAR lists the satellite's overall headline status as operational, while also documenting that X-band radio link failures prevent global and SAR data transmission; the satellite is currently working with limitations. The payload stack supports atmospheric temperature and humidity profiling, land surface and sea surface temperature retrieval, vegetation monitoring, passive microwave atmospheric sounding, and SAR-based surface backscatter. ^[1]^[2]

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current status	degraded
operator	Roshydromet
launch vehicle	roscosmos-soyuz-2
Launched	2023-06-27
planned decommission	2028-12-31
orbit type	Sun-synchronous orbit, 820 km altitude, 15:00 ascending equator crossing time
tasking supported	false
current geographic priority	Global operational meteorology with land observation and space-weather contributions; WMO notes X-band/SAR data transmission limitations.
Last updated	2026-06-14
claim status	agency-sourced

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Compositional position

this ——— IKFS-2 Infrared Fourier Spectrometer payload

this ——— KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer payload

this ——— MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer payload

this ——— MTVZA-GY Imaging/Sounding Microwave Radiometer payload

this ——— GGAK-M/RIMS-M Radio-frequency Mass Spectrometer payload

this ——— GGAK-E/SKIF-6 Corpuscular Radiation Spectrometer payload

this ——— GGAK-E/GALS-E Galactic Cosmic Ray Detector payload

this ——— MeteoSAR Meteorological Synthetic Aperture Radar payload

this ——— SAS&R Meteor Search and Rescue Payload payload

this ——— weather-nowcasting related-topic

this ——— Sea surface temperature related-topic

this ——— Ocean surface winds related-topic

this ——— Land cover change related-topic

this ——— State Space Corporation Roscosmos related

Atmospheric limb sounding → demonstrated IKFS-2 Infrared Fourier Spectrometer

Vegetation index mapping → demonstrated KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer

Optical time-series change detection → capable KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer

Multi-temporal burned-area mapping → capable KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer

Vegetation index mapping → demonstrated MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer

Sea-surface temperature retrieval → demonstrated MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer

Land-surface temperature - emissivity retrieval → demonstrated MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer

Thermal anomaly detection → demonstrated MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer

Multi-frequency microwave imaging radiometry → demonstrated MTVZA-GY Imaging/Sounding Microwave Radiometer

Microwave atmospheric sounding → demonstrated MTVZA-GY Imaging/Sounding Microwave Radiometer

Satellite precipitation retrieval → demonstrated MTVZA-GY Imaging/Sounding Microwave Radiometer

SAR backscatter imaging → demonstrated MeteoSAR Meteorological Synthetic Aperture Radar

Sources

[1]WMO OSCAR Meteor-M N2-3 satellite recordagency doc2026-06-14
[2]WMO OSCAR Meteor-3M satellite programmeagency doc2026-06-14

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