Satellites

An area to look at satellites and their uses 

 

Facts about Jason-1 NASA's newest satellite, put up December 7th, 2001

 

 

 

The METEOSAT Satellite

Web site featuring, Orbits, payloads and pictures of Meteosat, a meteorological satellite.  Also features a history of the program and a link to the European Space Agency   

 

SEA WINDS on ADEOS II

Measures the ocean winds from space and talks about the long term ocean wind data.

 

SEAWINDS on Quick SCAT

Measures the ocean winds from space. Used as a quick recovery to a loss of NASA Scatterometer

The Following are more links to Satellites 

Table of satellite links

http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/future/triana.html

http://eosdatainfo.gsfc.nasa.gov/eosdata/mission.html