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    The Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS) program, was a program where NASA developed two weather satellites; which were placed into geosynchronous...
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    and 1978 respectively. Prior to the GOES satellites two Synchronous Meteorological Satellites (SMS) satellites had been launched; SMS-1 in May 1974, and...
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    A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the...
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    The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department...
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    [citation needed] These types of satellites are almost always in Sun-synchronous and "frozen" orbits. A Sun-synchronous orbit passes over each spot on the...
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    The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international...
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  • Sphingomyelin synthase, an enzyme SMS-1, weather satellite, part of the NASA program Synchronous Meteorological Satellite SMS (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    The orbit will be a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO), dawn-to-dusk type. The planned mission life is three years. The satellite was fully integrated in January...
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  • enzyme Serotonin modulator and stimulator, a type of drug Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, a NASA program Simultaneous multiple surface, in non-imaging...
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    Environmental Satellite Synchronous Meteorological Satellite "ATS - Applications Technology Satellites (ATS I-V)". FSU Department of Meteorology. Archived from...
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    meteorological observation and data relay for providing meteorological services. KALPANA-1 is an exclusive meteorological satellite. The satellites are...
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    European branch of the program, and METOP for meteorological operations. These orbits are Sun synchronous, meaning that they cross the equator at the same...
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    weather satellite type for both purposes. Meteor Prototype launches Meteor-1 was a set of fully operational Russian meteorological satellite launched...
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    Nine ESSA satellites were launched during 1966–1969. The odd-numbered ESSA satellites provided meteorological data to national meteorological services...
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    satellites are deployed in a circular Sun-synchronous near polar orbit at an altitude of 510 km (± 40 km). EROS satellites imagery applications are primarily...
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    NOAA-1 (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    carried one other satellite: CEP 1. It was deactivated by NOAA on August 19, 1971. The NOAA 1 sun-synchronous meteorological satellite was primarily designed...
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    GOES 2 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
    Environmental Satellite system. GOES-2 was built by Ford Aerospace, and was based on the satellite bus developed for the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite programme...
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    used on Cloudsat. Like other Earth observation satellites, radar satellites often use Sun-synchronous orbits so that diurnal variations of vegetation...
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    GOES 1 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
    deactivated by NASA on 7 March 1985. Spaceflight portal Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS-A, SMS-B) "40 Years of GOES: The Anniversary of GOES-1...
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    MetOp (category European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)
    MetOp (Meteorological Operational satellite) is a series of three polar-orbiting meteorological satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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    imaging satellites choose a Sun-synchronous orbit because they can scan the entire globe with similar lighting. As the number of satellites and amount...
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    Environmental Science Services Administration (category Satellite meteorology)
    deployment of the first geostationary weather satellites, the Synchronous Meteorological Satellites of 1974 and 1975. Under the 1965 reorganization, the United...
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    000-kilometre (620 mi) Sun-synchronous orbit had already begun in 1978. They would later lead to the development of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)...
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    Fengyun (category Satellite collisions)
    China's meteorological satellites. Launched since 1988 into polar Sun-synchronous and geosynchronous orbit, each three-axis stabilized Fengyun satellite is...
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    subconsciously when ... I worked out the principles of synchronous communications satellites ...", McAleer, Neil (1992). Arthur C. Clarke. Contemporary...
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  • MetOp-SG (Meteorological Operational Satellite - Second Generation) is a series of six meteorological satellites developed by European Space Agency and...
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    Satellite ERTS-A or ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus 4 meteorological satellite...
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    Each satellite was intended to be Sun-synchronous, with passes almost at the same solar time each day. Although, due to the age of some satellites, minor...
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    GOES-16 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
    geostationary weather satellites following the success of the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS) and Synchronous Meteorological Satellite programs beginning...
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  • Special sensor microwave/imager (category Satellite meteorology)
    on board the United States Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 5D-2 satellites. The instrument measures surface/atmospheric...
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