The Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS) program, was a program where NASA developed two weather satellites; which were placed into geosynchronous...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) monitors meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics for the United States Department...

and 1978 respectively. Prior to the GOES satellites two Synchronous Meteorological Satellites (SMS) satellites had been launched; SMS-1 in May 1974, and...

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...

[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...

enzyme Serotonin modulator and stimulator, a type of drug Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, a NASA program Simultaneous multiple surface, in non-imaging...

Sphingomyelin synthase, an enzyme SMS-1, weather satellite, part of the NASA program Synchronous Meteorological Satellite SMS (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

Environmental Satellite system. GOES-2 was built by Ford Aerospace, and was based on the satellite bus developed for the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite programme...

meteorological observation and data relay for providing meteorological services. KALPANA-1 is an exclusive meteorological satellite. The satellites are...

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international...

China's meteorological satellites. Launched since 1988 into polar Sun-synchronous and geosynchronous orbit, each three-axis stabilized Fengyun satellite is...

geostationary means the satellites stay still in the sky (relative to a fixed point on the ground). Some imaging satellites chose a Sun-synchronous orbit because...

Environmental Satellite Synchronous Meteorological Satellite "ATS - Applications Technology Satellites (ATS I-V)". FSU Department of Meteorology. Archived from...

MetOp-SG (Meteorological Operational Satellite - Second Generation) is a series of six meteorological satellites developed by European Space Agency and...

died of smoke inhalation or burns. The first Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, SMS-1, a weather satellite placed in geosynchronous orbit, was launched...

subconsciously when ... I worked out the principles of synchronous communications satellites ...", McAleer, Neil (1992). Arthur C. Clarke. Contemporary...

geostationary weather satellites following the success of the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS) and Synchronous Meteorological Satellite programs beginning...

observation satellite Indian Remote Sensing List of Indian satellites Seasat Shuttle Radar Topography Mission "Satellite: NISAR". World Meteorological Organization...

weather satellite type for both purposes. Meteor Prototype launches Meteor-1 was a set of fully operational Russian meteorological satellite launched...

observations satellites provide information for research subjects that benefit from looking at Earth’s surface from above (such as meteorology, oceanography...

ERTS-1, was the first satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus 4 meteorological satellite and was launched...

payload was SUNSAT; the auxiliary payload satellites were launched free of charge) into a near-Sun synchronous elliptical polar orbit, it had a perigee...

European branch of the program, and METOP for meteorological operations. These orbits are Sun synchronous, meaning that they cross the equator at the same...

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...

used on Cloudsat. Like other Earth observation satellites, radar satellites often use Sun-synchronous orbits so that diurnal variations of vegetation...

deployment of the first geostationary weather satellites, the Synchronous Meteorological Satellites of 1974 and 1975. Under the 1965 reorganization, the United...

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...

installations include the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

to launch meteorological satellites, Earth resource satellites and scientific satellites on Long March launch vehicles into Sun-synchronous orbits. TSLC...

is the third set of satellites in a series of Chinese meteorological satellites developed by the Chinese military. The satellites are built by the China...