Sep 24 1988
From The Space Library
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's NOAA-11, meteorological weather satellite was launched aboard a U.S. Air Force Atlas-E launch vehicle from Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. NOAA-11, and its companion spacecraft, NOAA-9 and NOAA-10, assist in global and local weather forecasting. In addition, the NOAA satellites are used for hurricane tracking and warning; global sea ice monitoring; various atmospheric studies; and for agricultural, commercial fishing, forestry, maritime, and other industrial uses. NOAA-11 was placed in a 540-mile Sun-synchronous, near polar orbit, where it would circle the Earth approximately every 102 minutes, observe a different portion of the Earth's surface on each orbit, and view the Earth's entire surface and cloud cover once every 12 hours. (NASA Release 88-126; Aeronautics and Space Report of the President: 1988; SSR 1988 089A-C)
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