The Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) is a constellation of polar orbiting weather satellites funded by the National Oceanic and...
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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was to be the United States' next-generation satellite system that would...
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s...
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Suomi NPP (category Weather satellites of the United States)
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory...
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and satellite-based resources to accomplish its mission. These include: instruments carried aboard the NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)...
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managed operational polar orbiting satellites (POES) since 1966. Additionally, NESDIS has managed operational geosynchronous satellites (GOES) satellites since...
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MetOp (redirect from EUMETSAT Polar System)
between MetOp and NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), several instruments are carried on both fleets of satellites. MetOp-A, launched...
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fleet of operational weather satellites. The second generation of TIROS satellites, designated as ESSA, fulfilled this role as the TIROS Operational System...
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forecasts. The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward. Geostationary satellites followed, beginning with the...
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observation satellites are Earth-orbiting spacecraft with sensors used to collect imagery and measurements of the surface of the earth. These satellites are used...
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The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide...
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Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (category Atmospheric sounding satellite sensors)
Watts. Polar Operational Environmental Satellites Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer SBUV/2 "Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS)". Joint Polar Satellite System...
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Solar Spectroscopic Imager, the Aqua research satellite, and a Polar Operational Environmental Satellite. The CONTOUR probe was put into orbit on July...
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System (JPSS) project, was to replace the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) project which itself was cancelled...
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Copernicus Programme (redirect from Copernicus environmental monitoring programme)
MetOp is Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. MetOp is a series of three satellites launched sequentially over...
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for Starlink satellites in 2020, in addition to 14 or 15 non-Starlink launches. At 26 launches, 14 of which were for Starlink satellites, Falcon 9 had...
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geostationary orbiting satellites to include Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), Japan's Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS), and...
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military satellites to LEO, polar, and geosynchronous orbits. The heaviest payload launched on Falcon is a batch of 24 Starlink V2-Mini satellites weighing...
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (redirect from Environmental Data and Information Service)
satellites (GOES). In 1979, NOAA's first polar-orbiting environmental satellite was launched. Current operational satellites include NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19...
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Scientific Satellites NASA SP-133 p714 Cargill, R. Cargill (September 2001). "A History of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program"...
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the original on May 16, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2019. "Polar Operational Environmental Satellites" Archived 2019-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, NASA.gov...
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GOES-16 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
orbit, is the first of the GOES-R series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military applications. Some communications satellites are in geostationary...
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satellite internet constellations were proposed and developed, including Celestri (63 satellites) and Teledesic (initially 840, later 288 satellites)...
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GOES-19 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system until 2036. The satellite is built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100 platform. The satellite was...
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Nimbus program (redirect from Nimbus Satellites)
been launched into near-polar, Sun-synchronous orbits beginning with Nimbus 1 on August 28, 1964. On board the Nimbus satellites are various instrumentation...
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GOES 13 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. On 14 April 2010, GOES-13 became the operational weather satellite for GOES-East. It was...
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(originally classified) mission of the satellites was revealed in March 1973. They provide cloud cover imagery from polar orbits that are Sun-synchronous at...
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hot spots can also be found via thermal imaging from weather satellites. Weather satellites do not measure temperature directly. They measure radiances...
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images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell images by licensing...
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