The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer/Cloud Profiling Radar (EarthCARE/CPR) pre-launch preparations and post-launch status

Kanae Haze; Eiichi Tomita; Tomomi Nio; Kazuyuki Okada; Kenta Maruyama; Hirotaka Nakatsuka; Nobuhiro Tomiyama; Yoshihisa Aida; Shusuke Ochiai; Kazuya Konoue; Yuki Imura; Takuji Kubota; Masataka Muto; Shunsuke Aoki; Toshiyuki Tanaka; Hiroaki Horie; Yuichi Ohno; Kenji Sato

doi:10.1117/12.3031607

20 November 2024 The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer/Cloud Profiling Radar (EarthCARE/CPR) pre-launch preparations and post-launch status

Kanae Haze, Eiichi Tomita, Tomomi Nio, Kazuyuki Okada, Kenta Maruyama, Hirotaka Nakatsuka, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yoshihisa Aida, Shusuke Ochiai, Kazuya Konoue, Yuki Imura, Takuji Kubota, Masataka Muto, Shunsuke Aoki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hiroaki Horie, Yuichi Ohno, Kenji Sato

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Proceedings Volume 13192, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXVIII; 131920L (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3031607
Event: Remote Sensing, 2024, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) is a Japanese-European collaborative earth observation satellite mission. The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) is one of the EarthCARE instruments and it is the world's first onboard millimeter-wave Doppler radar in space. The Japan Aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) is responsible for development of the CPR in this mission in cooperation with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). The EarthCARE satellite was successfully launched at 07:20 JST on 29th May 2024 on the Space X Falcon-9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The first observations of the CPR were conducted on 12th and 13th June. The CPR observed the internal structure of cloud and succeeded in the world's first measurement of vertical cloud motion from space.

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Kanae Haze, Eiichi Tomita, Tomomi Nio, Kazuyuki Okada, Kenta Maruyama, Hirotaka Nakatsuka, Nobuhiro Tomiyama, Yoshihisa Aida, Shusuke Ochiai, Kazuya Konoue, Yuki Imura, Takuji Kubota, Masataka Muto, Shunsuke Aoki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hiroaki Horie, Yuichi Ohno, and Kenji Sato "The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer/Cloud Profiling Radar (EarthCARE/CPR) pre-launch preparations and post-launch status", Proc. SPIE 13192, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXVIII, 131920L (20 November 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3031607

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