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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name = Weather System Follow-on Microwave
| names_list = WSF-M
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| image_size = 300px
 
| mission_type = [[Space weather]]
| operator = [[United States Space Force|USSF]]
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| spacecraft =
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| manufacturer = [[Ball Aerospace & Technologies]]
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| launch_date = 11 April 2024, 14:25 UTC (WSF-M1)<ref name=2024USSF/><ref name=BATC2024/><br/>2027 (WSF-M2)
| launch_rocket = [[Falcon 9 Block 5]]
| launch_site = [[Vandenberg Space Force Base|Vandenberg]], [[SLC-4E]]
| launch_contractor = [[SpaceX]]
 
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| orbit_reference = [[Geocentric orbit]]
| orbit_regime = [[Sun-synchronous orbit]]
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| apsis = gee
 
| instruments = Microwave imaging radiometer
 
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| programme = [[Weather System Follow-on Microwave Program]]
| previous_mission = [[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP]]
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The '''Weather System Follow-on Microwave''' (WSF-M) satellite is the [[United States Department of Defense|United States Department of Defense's]] next-generation operational [[environmental satellite]] system. WSF-M will be a [[Sun-synchronous orbit|Sun-synchronous]] [[low Earth orbit]] (LEO) satellite with a passive [[microwave imaging]] radiometer instrument and hosted furnished Energetic Charged Particle (ECP) sensor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/content/-/article/wsf-m |title=WSF-M (Weather System Follow-on - Microwave) Satellite |work=eoPortal |publisher=[[ESA]] |date=March 2021 |access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="Ball">{{cite news|last1=Russell|first1=Kendall|title=Ball Aerospace Wins Air Force Contract for New Weather Satellite|url=https://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2017/11/30/ball-aerospace-wins-air-force-contract-new-weather-satellite/|publisher=Satellite Today|date=30 November 2017|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref> [[Space Operations Command]] intends to include ECP sensors on all future satellites for [[space weather]] monitoring, starting from the early 2020s.<ref name="Foust20160613">{{cite news|last=Werner|first=Debra|title=Are small satellites the solution for space weather monitoring?|url=https://spacenews.com/are-small-satellites-the-solution-for-space-weather-monitoring/|work=[[SpaceNews]]|date=6 March 2019|access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref>