21 June 2022
At the 75th session of the Executive Council of World Meteorological Organization on 20 June, the head of the China Meteorological Administration, Zhuang Guotai announced that the data produced by the country's two Fengyun series meteorological satellites will be shared with global users.
Fengyun 3E and Fengyun 4B are used to help monitor and forecast weather, as well as prevent and mitigate disasters. FY-4B, launched in June 2021, has a resolution of 250 m. FY-3E, the world's first civilian early morning orbit weather satellite, launched in July 2021, was designed to improve global weather forecasting by filling in the gap in data at specific times of the day. It has a global revisiting time of 6 hours.
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