Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force satellite had not flopped into place. When telemetry failed to confirm that a boom on a gravity gradient satellite had extended, RSA recognized a change in the radar pattern that proved the boom had stretched into place. A study of the radar echoes reflected from the first Nimbus weather satellite provided tumble and spin data that were unavailable from telemetry...
...advantage. He has air-conditioned many of his edifices, and such projects as Houston's Astrodome suggest that he will go much farther. His new vehicles, amid the general advance in knowledge of meteorology, are the creations of modern technology, particularly electronic-eyed weather satellites like Tiros and Nimbus and high-speed computers that can digest and interpret weather data...
...atmosphere, and computers have made it possible to handle and evaluate data fast enough to predict weather accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with...
Nearsighted Satellites. Sagan's assumption is based on a study of photographs transmitted by NASA's weather-watching Nimbus and Tiros satellites. Those pictures were taken from as close as several hundred miles above the Earth and are somewhat clearer than the Mariner shots, which could not distinguish objects smaller than three miles in diameter. Though Sagan examined hundreds of them for signs of life on Earth, he could find none...
Pictures from one of Nimbus' three camera systems can be used for weather forecasting by anybody willing to spend $32,000 on a ground receiving installation; WLAC-TV in Nashville has already installed equipment that will permit it to pick up weather pictures when Nimbus is overhead. By week's end Nimbus had snapped more than 2,000 pictures and transmitted them to NASA receiving stations at Gilmore Creek, Alaska, and Rosman, N.C. "I won't say that one Nimbus spacecraft does the work of thousands of ground-based stations," said Nimbus Project Manager Harry Press...