| 41. | In 1993, NOAA-13, a weather satellite, lost contact with Earth after 12 days in orbit.
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| 42. | Additionally, weather satellites provide a global weather watch.
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| 43. | The GOES-8 weather satellite launched in April 1994 is monitoring tropical storm development over the Atlantic.
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| 44. | That's equivalent to the data that could be transmitted by 10, 000 weather satellites every second.
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| 45. | A new Indian weather satellite, of the INSAT-II series, is expected to be launched in 1998.
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| 46. | China launched its first two weather satellites in 1988 and 1990, but they have stopped working.
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| 47. | Weather satellites take advantage of this instability to measure wind speeds over large bodies of water.
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| 48. | The Climate Orbiter was to spend more than two years circling Mars like a weather satellite.
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| 49. | The organisation is a leading member of EUMETSAT, responsible for the procurement of Meteosat weather satellites.
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| 50. | Marine and aviation programs also rely on information collected by weather satellites covering huge expanses of ocean.
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