Sentences with phrase «orbiting weather satellites»

Temperature sounding microwave radiometers flown on polar - orbiting weather satellites provide a long - term, global - scale record of upper - atmosphere temperatures, beginning in late 1978 and continuing to the present.

This dataset is an intercalibration of irradiance measurements from a fleet of geostationary and polar orbiting weather satellites, operational since 1983.

The PFO program is made up of two new polar orbiting weather satellites (JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4) that will ensure continuity of data.

The language notes that NOAA's mission for polar orbiting weather satellites «continues on a tenuous path.»

Not exact matches

Spire Global raised $ 70 million to put small satellites into orbit for weather forecasting and ship tracking.

After weather conditions prevented SpaceX from launching its communication satellite into orbit on Tuesday morning, the company is trying again.

And the daily snapshots it sends back are every bit as interesting as those recorded by the weather satellites orbiting Earth.

About 1,300 active satellites wreathe the globe in a crowded nest of orbits, providing worldwide communications, GPS navigation, weather forecasting and planetary surveillance.

Monitoring weather requires two types of satellites: geostationary and polar - orbiting.

She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.

On October 28, NASA launched the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, a prototype of the new generation of satellites, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), that will be the backbone of U.S. space - based weather and climate observations.

The budget asks for $ 2 billion to push forward with the next generation of weather satellites, including $ 380 million to begin to develop a Polar Follow - On satellite program, designed to fill the data gap between the current Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite with NASA and the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), of which the first satellite is scheduled to launch in early 2017.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

Nearly 1000 satellites now orbit the Earth, providing a wide range of applications, from communications to weather observation.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

Now she works on a weather satellite called S - NPP, which is currently in orbit, and another called JPSS that is slated to launch next year.

Normally, NASA watches for this wild space weather using solar observatories like SOHO and the STEREO mission, a pair of solar - orbiting satellites pointed at the Sun from two different angles.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Powered aloft by its lone RD - 180 rocket engine and four Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ60A solid rocket boosters, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 launched the GOES - S weather satellite into orbit on behalf of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The researchers compared predictions of 22 widely used climate «models» — elaborate schematics that try to forecast how the global weather system will behave — with actual readings gathered by surface stations, weather balloons and orbiting satellites over the past three decades.

With the help of satellites that orbit the Earth to specifically measure cloud cover, ground water and precipitation, scientists are able to assess current weather situations and predict future drought and rainfall activity not just in the U.S. but all over the world.

There are two main space weather concerns for Earth - orbiting satellites: radiation exposure and atmospheric satellite drag.

Have none of them heard of the weather satellites orbiting our globe?

The polar - orbiting Nimbus 5 satellite, launched in 1972, yielded the earliest all - weather, all - season imagery of global sea ice, using microwave instruments (Parkinson et al., 1987), and enabled a major advance in the scientific understanding of the dynamics of the cryosphere.

EUMETSAT operates four geostationary Meteosat spacecraft which provide frequent observations vital for severe weather warnings, and two Metop polar orbiting satellites which supply a unique wealth of ocean, land and atmospheric parameters essential for forecasting high impact weather up to 10 days in advance.

Most scientific satellites and many weather satellites are in a nearly circular, low Earth orbit.

First, they chop up the atmosphere into byte - sized chunks based on input from things like weather balloons and orbiting satellites, and then they run a whole series of mathematical equations to figure out the most likely future state of weather patterns — a process that's hugely computer intensive — indeed, some of the world's most powerful computers are used to forecast the weather.