Japan Meteorological Agency

aka 気象庁, Meteorological Satellite Center, MSC

JMA is Japan's national meteorological service, operating GEO meteorological satellites since 1978. The Himawari-8 and -9 satellites deliver high-resolution 16-band multispectral imagery every 10 minutes over Asia-Pacific, used for typhoon tracking, precipitation forecasting, and climate monitoring.

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Launches

Payloads in Orbit· view →

4 r/b

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Active Sats (reported)

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Products & Services

Himawari-9

operational

weather satellite

Third-generation GEO meteorological satellite, primary operational satellite since December 2022, providing high-resolution weather monitoring over Asia-Pacific.

Since 2017

Event Timeline (0 events)

No events recorded.