Introduction of Guangzhou Meteorological Satellite Ground Station

Guangzhou meteorological satellite ground station is an important part of China's meteorological satellite ground application system and one of the four meteorological satellite ground stations under the National Satellite Meteorological Center. It is located in the northeast of Guangzhou, covering an area of more than 60,000 square meters. It was built in 1978 and officially put into use in 1986. It is a national key construction project during the Sixth Five-Year Plan and the Seventh Five-Year Plan. It is mainly responsible for on-orbit tracking, on-orbit testing, satellite measurement and control, ranging, extraction, processing and forwarding of satellite telemetry data. At the same time, it undertakes the receiving, processing, application and archiving services of NOAA series polar orbit meteorological satellites in the United States and MTSAT series geostationary meteorological satellites in Japan. Since 2003, the receiving, processing and application system of ——EOS, an American earth environment monitoring satellite, has been added, which belongs to one of the four national backbone sites. After years of construction, Guangzhou Meteorological Satellite Ground Station has been built into a large-scale comprehensive satellite ground station with the most advanced and routine meteorological detection means such as polar orbit meteorological satellite ground application system, geostationary meteorological satellite mesoscale utilization station, geostationary meteorological satellite ranging station, VSAT satellite communication earth station and national basic meteorological station. In 2006, operational monitoring and scientific research on space weather began, and the "Southern Center of National Space Weather Monitoring and Early Warning Center" was established. With the development of meteorological satellites and satellite meteorology in China, the existing stations can no longer meet the needs of business development. Therefore, I stood in the northern suburb of Guangzhou and opened a new station area (Bili Bili District). Bili Bili District covers an area of 1.68 mu, with a larger station area and stronger design business capability. It will have the operational ability to track, receive and process meteorological satellites and other satellites. After the new station area is completed and put into use, it will make greater contributions to the development of satellite meteorology in China.