Europe's latest weather satellite has captured its first picture of the Earth, and it's a pretty one.
Scientists at NASA, as well as the designer of the federal weather satellite system, have expressed serious doubts.
It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.
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The association also warns that as a result, the expected one year weather satellite gap could be much, much longer.
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China launched the Feng Yun 1C polar orbit weather satellite in 1999.
Projects up for debate include Europe's continued participation in the space station and the development of a major new weather satellite system.
The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.
Timothy Liu, project scientist for a weather-watching NASA satellite called SeaWinds, said it was Floyd that finally prompted him to look for an explanation for this season's train of storms.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) dedicated Hurricane Sandy page contains links to the latest advisories, satellite images and weather reports.
Just as open data has been used to fuel multi-billion dollar industries in other sectors, like the weather industry that uses raw satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has spent the last few years nurturing entrepreneurial innovation in the health space through open government data.
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The app lacks some of the features of a regular weather app (like a five-day forecast or satellite maps), and it sticks to the current weather only.
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That has already happened with weather data and with America's GPS satellite-navigation system that was opened for full commercial use a decade ago.
After leaving the Royal Navy, David joined the Met Office in 1995 and became a member of the BBC's team of weather presenters, initially working for two BBC satellite channels.
The country has plans for better satellite communications, broadcasting facilities, weather forecasting and Earth observation missions all of which will have a dual civilian and military role, but none of which need be manned.
Weather.com is the online version of the Weather Channel, the 24-hour cable and satellite television channel launched in 1982 and now available in 86 million American households.
The satellite launched by Seoul is designed to analyze weather data, measure radiation in space, gauges distances on earth and test how effectively South Korean-made devices installed on the satellite operate in space.
The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
But its 16 authors, led by Michael Ladisch, a biological engineer at Purdue University, reckon that high-tech chow will, within the next 25 years, protect troops from attack by biological weapons, insulate them against cold weather and even make them visible to their commanders by satellite.
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The satellite record regarding atmospheric temperatures is independently confirmed by weather balloons.
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We had an airplane running flawlessly, we had real-time weather displayed on a large-screen map, and we had XM Satellite Radio to make the hours pass.
But a solar storm has the potential to disrupt the shielding effect, and severe space weather can have harmful effects on a wide array of technological systems, including satellite operations, communications, navigation and electric power grids.
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Additionally, the Weather Channel used Twitter during recent coverage of Hurricane Earl when a reporter lost the satellite feed in the middle of his live broadcast.
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The report also urged the Ministry of Defence to plan for the loss or degradation of satellite-based communications systems in case they are damaged by severe space weather.
Weather of a slightly more familiar kind is thought to exist on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn and the only moon in the solar system to have a thick atmosphere.
The latest outing for Europe's new small satellite launcher, Vega, has been postponed until an unspecified date because of bad weather conditions.
Coming soon: synthetic-vision technology that draws on satellite signals to create 3-D images of the terrain, no matter what the weather.
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