ATS-1
ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite) was the first experimental equatorial synchronous satellite. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the Spin Scan Cloud Camera developed by Verner E. Suomi and Robert Parent at the University of Wisconsin. After entering a geostationary orbit at 23,000 mi (37,000 km) above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador, it transmitted weather images from the Western Hemisphere, as well as other data, to ground stations, including well as video feeds for television broadcasting. "For the first time," historians would note later, "rapid-imaging of nearly an entire hemisphere was possible. We could watch, fascinated, as storm systems developed and moved and were captured in a time series of images. Today s
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ATS-1
ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite) was the first experimental equatorial synchronous satellite. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the Spin Scan Cloud Camera developed by Verner E. Suomi and Robert Parent at the University of Wisconsin. After entering a geostationary orbit at 23,000 mi (37,000 km) above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador, it transmitted weather images from the Western Hemisphere, as well as other data, to ground stations, including well as video feeds for television broadcasting. "For the first time," historians would note later, "rapid-imaging of nearly an entire hemisphere was possible. We could watch, fascinated, as storm systems developed and moved and were captured in a time series of images. Today s
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ATS 1 (Applications Technology ...... e comunicaciones mediante VHF.
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ATS-1 (Applications Technology ...... n 18 years, until April, 1985.
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ATS-1 est un satellite météoro ...... ications Technology Satellite.
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O ATS-1 (da série Applications ...... o de um foguete Atlas-Agena D.
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ATS 1 (Applications Technology ...... VHF como método de navegación.
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ATS-1 (Applications Technology ...... time series of images. Today s
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ATS-1 est un satellite météoro ...... ications Technology Satellite.
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O ATS-1 (da série Applications ...... o de um foguete Atlas-Agena D.
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