The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) has released the first imagery from the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) on Himawari-9. The image above, from 0240 UTC on 24 January 2017, is from Band 3 (the “Red” Band) that detects reflected solar radiation near 0.64 µm in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This band... Read More

Japan successfully launched the Himawari-9 satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center (near the southern tip of Tanegashima in the Osumi Islands south of Kyushu), a back-up to Himawari-8, shortly after 3:20 PM local time (0620 UTC) on 2 November 2016 (News Link 1, 2, 3, 4). Images showing all 16... Read More