EarthCARE/CPR current conditions and preliminary results from scientific views

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The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) is a Japanese-European collaborative earth observation satellite mission, designed to better understand uncertain aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions. Among its instruments is the Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), which is the world's first onboard millimeter-wave Doppler radar in space. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), in partnership with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), developed the CPR for this mission. The EarthCARE satellite was successfully launched at 07:20 JST on 29th May 2024 by the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The CPR conducted its first observations on June 12th and 13th, achieving the world's first measurement of vertical cloud motion from space. Additionally, in October, synergistic cloud images combining data from multiple sensors onboard EarthCARE were released. Currently the mission is under the Commissioning and CAL/VAL Phase to calibrate and validate the CPR data. Following this phase, it will transition to the Measurement/Operation Phase in December.

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