Sentences with phrase «weather satellite on»

«It has really been our first weather satellite on another planet,» says Grinspoon.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): The bill provides $ 5.4 billion for NOAA, $ 126 million above 2014, and includes funding to keep several troubled weather satellites on track.

Not exact matches

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

You would probably just consult the weather report in the newspaper or on TV, complete with satellite photographs of the entire nation.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather - forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on March 1.

A new system can provide up to eight - hour forecasts that are updated hourly based on satellite data and weather models

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.

NASA's Terra satellite caught this true - color picture on January 24 in a moment of clear weather between two major snowstorms that hit North America's eastern coast.

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

Currently, weather radar on satellites can image the tops of clouds, but not the internal structure.

An earlier study based on maps of the Antarctic ice produced by American weather satellites, by Joe Jacka and colleagues at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania, showed a similar decline in Antarctic sea ice.

However, when a tornado prominence erupts, it can cause what's known as space weather, potentially damaging power, satellite and communication networks on Earth.»

For years, concern about NOAA's troubled polar satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve weather data.

On January 11, 2007, with no warning, China's military fired a ballistic missile at one of the country's weather satellites and blew it to bits.

New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run on more powerful supercomputers.

Other countries should be worried, too: even if their militaries are not as dependent on satellites, they make use of them for positioning, weather forecasts and communications.

The data comes from space - weather sensors developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory on board the nation's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

«Space - weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades,» said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager.

Apart from ground stations, weather forecasts are heavily dependent on weather satellites for information to start or «initialize» the numerical weather prediction models that are the foundation of modern weather prediction.

Lapenta foresees a day in the next decade when the increasing capabilities of new radars and satellites will be coupled with an evolving generation of finely detailed weather - prediction models running in real time on computers at speeds exceeding a quintillion computations a second.

While the ongoing research uses ground - based lightning detection networks, the UAH team is also working on being able to use lightning counts reported by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper aboard the GOES - R geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2016.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

Dr. Binding has been using the images from NASA and European satellites to monitor the progression of warm weather harmful algal blooms on the surface of Lake Erie since 2004.

Singapore authorities will be able to rely on a «causal link» such as satellite images or weather maps pin - pointing where smoke has come from.

Plagued by cost overruns on its own satellites, NOAA has been pressured by Congress to explore commercial weather satellites, which included a mandate for the commercial weather pilot in its 2016 appropriations.

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

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.

The solar cycle is no mere astronomical oddity: so - called space weather that originates from solar activity can have very tangible effects on Earth and its environs, disrupting power grids, upsetting satellite communications and causing pipelines to rust.

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System 15 August 2017 Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager - 2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

The results are based on a statistical blending of satellite data and temperature data from weather stations.

The sun's «weather» is of interest to solar physicists because it can create adverse conditions for space travelers, communications satellites and even electrical systems on Earth.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

To that end, they will observe the weather on these ice shelves, measure the amount of surface melt from the ground and from satellites, and analyse how snow characteristics change in response to melt.

That's an instrument on the latest weather satellite — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES - 16.

Worth a collective $ 22 billion in estimated lifecycle costs, the satellite programs are vital to NOAA's mission of providing weather forecast data to scientists on the ground.

The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.

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.

Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have manufactured and tested a new type of colloidal quantum dots (CQD), that could lead to much cheaper, spray - on solar cells, as well as better LEDs, lasers and weather satellites.

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).

On February 17, 2012, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on President Obama's FY2013 budget request for research and development, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates the nation's civil weather satelliteOn February 17, 2012, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on President Obama's FY2013 budget request for research and development, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates the nation's civil weather satelliteon President Obama's FY2013 budget request for research and development, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates the nation's civil weather satellites.

The House Approrpriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) held a hearing on June 21, 2012 on financial misconduct at the National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that uses data from the nation's weather satellites.

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