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meteorological satellite: see satellite, artificial satellite, artificial, object constructed by humans and placed in orbit around the earth or other celestial body (see also space probe ). The satellite is lifted from the earth's surface by a rocket and, once placed in orbit, maintains its motion without further ..... Click the link for more information. ; weather satellite weather satellite, artificial satellite used to gather data on a global basis for improvement of weather forecasting. Information includes cloud cover, storm location, temperature, and heat balance in the earth's atmosphere. ..... Click the link for more information. . meteorological satellite [‚med·ē·ə·rə′läj·ə·kəl ′sad·əl‚īt] (aerospace engineering) Earth-orbiting spacecraft carrying a variety of instruments for measuring visible and invisible radiations from the earth and its atmosphere. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The NWA Council approved and President Dave Knapp mailed the letters to leaders in the Meteorological Satellite community in May 2006 with the following enclosure. Increasingly in recent years, meteorological satellite data has been used to model the spatial and seasonal dynamics of infectious disease transmission and develop affordable early warning systems for malaria (Thomson et al. 9 billion contract to build the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, the nation's next-generation meteorological satellite system; and an $825 million NASA contract to build the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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