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Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Satellite 1 telemetry R01

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/prefire-sat1/prefire/bus-tlm_l0.r01

Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) Satellite 1 Telemetry (PREFIRE_SAT1_0-BUS-TLM) contains positioning and pointing information for one of two PREFIRE polar orbiting CubeSats.

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Both CubeSats carry a PREFIRE Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (TIRS-PREFIRE), a push broom spectrometer with 63 channels measuring mid- and far-infrared (FIR) radiation from approximately 5 to 53 µm. Most polar emissions are in the FIR but have not been measured on a large scale.

PREFIRE aims to fill knowledge gaps in the global energy budget by more accurately characterizing polar emissions. This information will be assimilated into global circulation and other models to predict future conditions more accurately. This collection contains the time, beta angle, orbit position and velocity, and the quaternion of PREFIRE Satellite 1 (PREFIRE-SAT1).

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Combined with a Digital Elevation Map, these telemeters geolocate PREFIRE data on the Earth’s surface. Data retrieval started June 29, 2024 and is ongoing. Geographic coverage is global, with the greatest concentration of data in the polar regions.

This data is retrieved at a frequency of 1Hz and is available in CSV format. Positioning and pointing information for the sister satellite, PREFIRE-SAT2, can be found in the PREFIRE_SAT2_0-BUS-TLM collection.

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NASA Data Portald4a14dec-8f47-489a-9aed-e71d7c99f6b55 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:astronomymapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
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concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:physicsmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:tirs-prefiresource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/outgoing-longwave-radiationsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:prefire-sat1source · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
created_datesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
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spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
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version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0