Weather System Follow-on Microwave Program: Difference between revisions

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WSF-M is designed to mitigate three high priority U.S. DoD Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) gaps: ocean surface vector winds, tropical cyclone intensity and LEO energetic charged particles.<ref name="Ball"/>

==WSF-M2==

{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Weather System Follow-on Microwave-2

| names_list = WSF-M2

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| mission_type = [[Space weather]]

| operator = [[United States Space Force|USSF]]

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| manufacturer = [[Ball Aerospace & Technologies]]

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| launch_date = 2027<ref name=2024USSF/><ref name=BATC2024/>

| launch_rocket = [[Falcon 9 Block 5]]

| launch_site = [[Vandenberg Space Force Base|Vandenberg]]

| 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

| insignia =

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| programme = [[Weather System Follow-on Microwave program]]

| previous_mission = [[Weather System Follow-on Microwave Program|WSF-M1]]

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== References ==