| NOUN | a weather satellite | weather satellites | |
| SYNO | meteorological satellite | weather satellite |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- TIROS-1 (or TIROS-A) was the first full-scale weather satellite (the Vanguard 2 satellite was the first experimental/prototype weather satellite), the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites placed in low Earth orbit.
- There is also a Bureau of Meteorology satellite tracking station for a weather satellite, Himawari-8 located there.
- He wrote: "the Summary does not even mention the existence of 18 years of weather satellite data that show a slight global cooling trend, contradicting all theoretical models of climate warming."
- The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is a NOAA Earth observation and space weather satellite that launched in February 2015.
- GMS-5, the satellite MTSAT-1 was intended to replace, was decommissioned on 1 April 2003 leaving Japan without weather satellite imagery.
- military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan.
- The final such vehicle launched a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) weather satellite on 18 October 2003.
- Many Atlantic hurricanes pass through the Triangle as they recurve off the Eastern Seaboard, and, before the advent of weather satellite, ships often had little to no warning of a hurricane's approach.
- It may be based on a secondary payload of a weather satellite (as in the case of GOES and METEOSAT and others in the Argos system) or in dedicated satellites (such as SCD).
- As the first weather satellite and one of the first orbital space missions, the launch of Vanguard 2 was an important milestone in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- DMSP was to be replaced by the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) but that was cancelled in 2012.
- INSAT-3DR is a weather satellite meant to provide meteorological services to India using a 6-channel imager and a 19-channel sounder, it was launched on 9 September 2016 by the GSLV Mk II F05, and is a follow-up to INSAT-3D.
- the BoM installed through a contractor Av-Comm, the first Australian ground station for the Himawari 8 weather satellite service.
- On 11 January 2007, the People's Republic of China successfully destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite, Fengyun-1C (FY-1C, COSPAR [...]).
- Ecuador launched its weather satellite, named "Pegaso" ([...] , Pegasus in Spanish), on 26 April 2013 but it was damaged by Russian space debris.
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