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NOAA POES
run by noaa
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[Image: NOAA POES Satellite (35K)]
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NOAA Polar-orbiting
Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)
are three-axis-stabilized spacecrafts that are launched into an
orbit 830-870 kilometers high,
constantly circling the Earth in an almost north-south orbit,
passing close to both poles.
POES satellites from NOAA-6 offer 4 or 5 channel multispectral daily
repetitive global coverage. |
| Image provided by:
National Climatic Data Center
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The NOAA-12 -14 belong to the TIROS series known as the
advanced Television Infrared Observing System satellite
(The first meteorological satellite was one of the TIROS family).
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![[Image: NOAA POES Satellite (35K)]](/guides/rs/sat/poes/gifs/noaa1.gif){kind=link}