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United States NASA: 5 December 2002, Atlas IIA: 171.1°W TDRS-11: United States NASA: 31 January 2013, Atlas V 401: 169.5°W NSS-6: Lockheed Martin A2100AXS: Netherlands SES: Direct broadcasting, video distribution Asia: 17 December 2002 Ariane 44L: Ku-band satellite 167.6°W TDRS-5: United States NASA: 2 August 1991, Space Shuttle Atlantis ...
GOES-16, a United States weather satellite of the meteorological-satellite service. A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously), or geostationary ...
The satellites are pinpoint, while stars have created star trails due to Earth's rotation. A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit [a] ( GEO ), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator, 42,164 km (26,199 mi) in radius from Earth's center, and following the ...
NOAA's GOES-EAST weather satellite spotted the first cloud of dust over the eastern Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico, with an even bigger plume of dust to the west off the coast of Africa.
List of USA satellites. This is a list of satellites and spacecraft which have been given USA designations by the United States Air Force. These designations have been applied to most United States military satellites since 1984, and replaced the earlier OPS designation. As of June 2022, USA designations have been assigned to 331 space satellites.
23°N 13°E. / 23; 13. The Sahara ( / səˈhɑːrə /, / səˈhærə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
The African continent is larger than China, India and the United States combined. And yet Africa has just 37 radar facilities for tracking weather, an essential tool along with satellite data and ...
The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.