ATS-1
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ats-1-182-10619918
title:
ATS-1
text:
ATS-1, also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1, was an experimental geostationary satellite, launched in 1966, and part of the Applications Technology Satellites Program. 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 an orbit at 23,000 mi (37,000 km) above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador, it transmitted weather image
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early geostationary communications and weather satellite, launched in 1966
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS-1
date created:
2012-02-28T03:36:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:00:29Z
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