The first was China's deliberate destruction of a decommissioned weather satellite using a missile in 2007.
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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In 2007, they destroyed an aging weather satellite operating in an orbit similar to those used by U.S. photo-reconnaissance spacecraft.
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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.
That's when it's thought a piece of the Feng Yun 1C weather satellite, which was destroyed in the 2007 missile test, accidentally hit the Russian satellite, said T.
Why, in January, did China test-fire a rocket to destroy an old weather satellite, when it insists no one is more committed to the peaceful development of space?
Breaking nearly two weeks of silence, Communist China has now confirmed that it did indeed successfully attack and destroy an aging weather satellite more than 500 miles above the earth.
The Chinese military destroyed an aging weather satellite last year, prompting questions about whether the United States is merely flexing its muscle to show an economic and military rival that it can destroy satellites, too.
President Bush made absolutely no mention of missile defense in his State of the Union address, an astonishing omission at a time when the war against Islamic fanaticism is at the forefront of American politics and only days after China finally acknowledged that on Jan. 11 it had tested a missile in space by destroying an aging weather satellite.
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.
So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.
Satellite and weather balloon data tell us that the Earth's average temperature has fallen slightly during the last 20 years.
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.
Reports last month that China had successfully tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon against one of its own antiquated weather satellites using a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile raised the stakes in the ongoing battle between the U.S. and China over space supremacy.
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