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  • Thumbnail for Joint Polar Satellite System
    The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide...
    21 KB (2,473 words) - 00:01, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
    Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite...
    40 KB (4,218 words) - 10:52, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Argos (satellite system)
    Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms...
    11 KB (1,088 words) - 07:24, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Communications satellite
    Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was established in 1994 to consolidate the polar satellite operations of NASA (National...
    49 KB (5,949 words) - 17:44, 13 September 2024
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    such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, cartography and others. The most common type are Earth imaging satellites, that take satellite images,...
    14 KB (1,586 words) - 03:29, 31 July 2024
  • continuing Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) project, was to replace the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) project...
    3 KB (205 words) - 14:30, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
    The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) was created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
    8 KB (699 words) - 20:48, 15 July 2024
  • System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite is the United States Department of Defense's next-generation operational environmental satellite system....
    5 KB (311 words) - 01:27, 1 July 2024
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    Suomi NPP (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) and NPP-Bridge, is a weather satellite operated by the United States...
    18 KB (1,795 words) - 14:41, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for NPOESS
    Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was to be the United States' next-generation satellite system that would monitor the Earth's...
    6 KB (614 words) - 14:59, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Environmental Research Satellite
    The Environmental Research Satellite (ERS, alternatively Earth Resources Satellite) program was a series of small satellites initially operated by the...
    26 KB (1,970 words) - 03:15, 8 September 2024
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    later become defunct. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels...
    60 KB (6,338 words) - 21:39, 15 September 2024
  • The Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) is a constellation of polar orbiting weather satellites funded by the National Oceanic and...
    8 KB (944 words) - 00:05, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Television Infrared Observation Satellite
    (May 1982). "The Development of the TIROS Global Environmental Satellite System". Meteorological Satellites – Past, Present, and Future (PDF). AIAA 20th Aerospace...
    36 KB (4,122 words) - 04:10, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for GOES 13
    Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. On 14 April 2010, GOES-13 became the operational weather satellite for GOES-East. It was replaced...
    17 KB (1,809 words) - 21:54, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Svalbard Satellite Station
    its ground station for National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, the successor of EOS, to Helsinki, Finland, instead of Svalbard...
    29 KB (3,024 words) - 11:22, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
    National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Space debris "Schriever Airmen assist during satellite program move". Schriever Air Force...
    43 KB (2,439 words) - 23:54, 1 September 2024
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    Moon (redirect from Luna (satellite))
    United States from coast to coast). Within the Solar System, it is the largest and most massive satellite in relation to its parent planet, the fifth largest...
    268 KB (25,978 words) - 13:33, 12 September 2024
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    GOES 8 (category Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
    weather satellite, which formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. It...
    7 KB (583 words) - 21:48, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Galileo (satellite navigation)
    Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA), operated...
    108 KB (10,747 words) - 04:27, 13 September 2024
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