GaoFen 6 (GF 6)

Spacecraft nº:

Chinese spacecraft nº: 399

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Description:

• GAOFEN 6 is a member of a series of Chinese civilian remote sensing satellites. Gaofen F 6 is an optical satellite similar to the Gaofen 1 satellite, but using a different instrument suit, consisting of a 2/8 m resolution panchromatic/hyperspectral camera with an image swath of >90 km) and a 16 m resolution wide angle camera with an 800 km image swath. Both cameras use a three-mirror anastigmat telescope. Both covers visible light to NIR bands (wavelength ~450-900 nm).

Mission details:

• A SAST/Shanghai Chang Zheng 2D launched a DFH CAST-2000 high resolution imaging satellite, Gao Fen 6, on Jun 2, 2018. Gao Fen 6 has a 2 metre resolution imager and a hyperspectral imager. A secondary 6U cubesat payload for Wuhan University was deployed.
• GF-6 is the 12th Gao Fen (`high resolution') satellite to be launched. All are in sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) except for the geostationary GF-4.

External links:

• Satellite tracking: Real time satellite tracking