FY-3E is the 1st early morning orbit unit of the FY-3 series. There will be eleven instruments on board the satellite. These instruments will monitor a wide range of land, ocean, atmosphere and space phenomena. FY-3E is planned to be launched in 2018, and all real time data will be distributed in X-band Direct Broadcast. The provision of data from FY-3E missions will be crucial for weather and climate monitoring, numerical weather forcasting and space weather monitoring.
Instruments that will fly on FY-3E include:
- HIRAS Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder
- GNOS GNSS Radio Occultation Sounder
- MERSI(low light) Medium Resolution Spectral Imager – low light
- MWHS-II Micro-Wave Humidity Sounder -2
- MWTS-III Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder – 3
- SIM-2 Solar Irradiance Monitor – 2
- WindRAD Wind Radar
- SES/IPM SES / Ionospheric PhotoMeter
- SES/SEM SES / SEM
- SES /X-EUV
- SES / X-EUV