Fengyun-4B Geostationary Satellite

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China's new Fengyun-4B (FY-4B) geostationary satellite, which was launched in June 2021, has been put into trial operation.

FY-4B, positioned at 133°E, has an impressive spatial resolution as high as 250 meters and comes with a geostationary high-speed imager (GHI) that has a temporal resolution of 1 minute! A powerful tool to spice up typhoon tracking in the WPAC . Hopefully, China will be more open to releasing data/images from this satellite to the public.

 https://twitter.com/simon_sat/status/1532311673146691585

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China's NSMC released this 1-minute FY-4B rapid scan loop of Typhoon Cempaka (July 2021) as it intensified near the Guangdong coast. For comparison, Himawari-8 rapid scan updates every 2.5 mins.

FY-4B was originally located at 123.5E during its in-orbit test then moved to 133E last April.

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Typhoon In-fa, also from July 2021.

[Hurricane2021]

China's NSMC released this 1-minute FY-4B rapid scan loop of Typhoon Cempaka (July 2021) as it intensified near the Guangdong coast. For comparison, Himawari-8 rapid scan updates every 2.5 mins.

FY-4B was originally located at 123.5E during its in-orbit test then moved to 133E last April.

https://i.imgur.com/wWgi5co.gif

Incredible!
Do you have more TC images of this sat?

[doomhaMwx]

Incredible!
Do you have more TC images of this sat?

Those are the TC images I can find for now.

January 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption:

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True color images

 https://twitter.com/wp19vff/status/1534125508128309248



 https://twitter.com/wp19vff/status/1534896573880365056

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Respect for the Chinese if they allow this to be publicly viewed.