After half a century's development, Fengyun satellites have made remarkable achievements, 19 satellites have been successfully launched and 8 are currently in orbit, forming a series of operational integrated observation networks in polar orbiting and geostationary orbiting. In the past 50 years, with the upgrading of payload on board and improvement of observation capability, Fengyun satellites have made steady progress both in methods and techniques of space weather monitoring. This paper reviews the development of Fengyun satellites and satellite meteorology and summarizes the evolution of satellite in weather application. Moreover, based on the future requirement and the planning roadmap of Fengyun satellites, the latent capacity in satellite weather application is prospected.

Fengyun satellites  /  tropical cyclone  /  rainstorm  /  lightning  /  vertical profile