WIVERN Program
ESA Earth Explorer 11 mission selected for implementation in September 2025, WIVERN will use a dual-polarisation 94 GHz Doppler radar to measure winds within clouds and the structure of cloud water, rain, snow, and ice, improving hazardous-weather forecasts and climate records.
Identity
- Aliases
- WIVERNWIVERN Earth Explorer 11Wind Velocity Radar NephoscopeEarth Explorer 11
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- WIVERN Program
- Status
- planned
- Types
- scienceresearchdevelopment
Details
- Description
- ESA Earth Explorer 11 mission selected for implementation in September 2025, WIVERN will use a dual-polarisation 94 GHz Doppler radar to measure winds within clouds and the structure of cloud water, rain, snow, and ice, improving hazardous-weather forecasts and climate records.
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 2025-09-23
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 16:39:08 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 16:39:08 UTC
Other
- Official Urls
- https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/ESA_selects_WIVERN_as_11th_Earth_Explorer_missionhttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/FutureEO_at_ESA_s_Ministerial_Council_2025https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Preparing_for_tomorrow/Scientific_and_technical_mission_documents