Question 1 of 15
What was the world's first weather satellite?
Why: TIROS-1 launched April 1, 1960 by NASA.
Question 2 of 15
What US satellite program provides most weather imagery today?
Why: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites.
Question 3 of 15
What orbit are GOES satellites in?
Why: Geostationary at 22,236 miles.
Question 4 of 15
What is Himawari?
Why: Japanese GEO satellite covering the western Pacific.
Question 5 of 15
What agency runs GOES?
Why: NOAA operates and NASA builds.
Question 6 of 15
What is 'polar orbit' good for?
Why: Polar orbits circle the Earth pole-to-pole.
Question 7 of 15
What does an ABI instrument do?
Why: Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-R series.
Question 8 of 15
The GOES-R series first launched in what year?
Why: November 2016.
Question 9 of 15
How often does a modern GOES satellite scan the continental US?
Why: The GOES-R series scans CONUS every minute.
Question 10 of 15
What satellite detected lightning globally?
Why: Multiple satellites carry lightning mappers.
Question 11 of 15
What's the Global Precipitation Measurement mission?
Why: NASA/JAXA rainfall satellite.
Question 12 of 15
What is the ISS good for weather-wise?
Why: Astronauts photograph major weather events.
Question 13 of 15
What is EUMETSAT?
Why: Manages Meteosat and MetOp.
Question 14 of 15
What did TIROS-1 first prove?
Why: It captured 22,952 usable images.
Question 15 of 15
Modern hurricane satellite tracking uses what?
Why: Both wavelengths for 24-hour tracking.