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we don't always think about them but we

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depend on weather data every day in the

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morning we make a decision on what to

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wear or whether we should take an

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umbrella or maybe even decide not dry

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because there is a warning for icy

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on a bigger scale weather data helps

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improve the efficiency in many sectors

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of the US economy saving industry and

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the general public at least five billion

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dollars per year the National Oceanic

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and Atmospheric Administration known as

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noah owns and operates weather

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satellites built and launched by NASA

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that helped save lives and resources

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since nineteen sixty NOAA has operated a

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fleet of polar orbiting environmental

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satellites called pose complemented by

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the higher altitude geostationary

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operational environmental satellite snow

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Nazz goes together these two satellite

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constellations are advancing mankind's

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ability to see the whole earth

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continuously and predict severe weather

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events with greater accuracy in 2009

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NASA will launch noah and prime operated

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by NOAA and prime will be the last in

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the television infrared observation

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satellite series or Tyros noah m prime

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is going to give us data the same as

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we've been getting it in the past but

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its main role is continuity of service

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and to restore some of the degraded

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instruments that we've had so we're

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looking forward to a fresh satellite

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that has a hundred percent of everything

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working and also help us continue our

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services until the next generation of

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empo satellites that are ready so we

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need to satellite to last for at least

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three years continuously delivered

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satellite weather data provides the

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building blocks for far-reaching climate

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and research programs data provided by

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Noah's weather satellites has many

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applications to name a few search and

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rescue instruments carried on Noah's

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weather satellites help save lives every

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day

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scientists can monitor the vegetation

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index to know whether crops are in

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stress and need water farmers rely on

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the weather forecast to know when they

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should plant and harvest the crops

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fishermen use weather data to decide

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when and where to fish tracking

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migratory animals endangered species

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volcanic eruptions forest fires and

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icebergs are also a function of Noah's

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weather satellites ships take advantage

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of information provided about ocean

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currents streams and even icebergs to

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save fuel and charts safe routes weather

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satellites provide critical space

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environment data that warns astronauts

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about high solar activity so they can

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seek shelter in their space station well

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these satellites that NOAA has NASA

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launched they don't just benefit the

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u.s. they benefit everyone in these

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satellites over the last 50 years since

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nineteen sixty have increased the

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abilities on all phones and everyone has

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benefited just in so many areas the

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sep tember nine 1900 a devastating

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category four storm hits Galveston Texas

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without a warning Galveston has been the

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scene of one of the greatest

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catastrophes in the world's history the

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situation looked desperate back then

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weather satellites were still an

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impossible dream the lack of timely and

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accurate warning meant the difference

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within these last 19 months at least 45

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satellites have circled the earth some

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40 of them were made in the United

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States of America transit satellites are

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helping our ships at sea who steer a

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safer course tyrus satellites have given

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us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes

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and storms and will do the same for four

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of five and I scourge the first weather

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satellite Tyros one was launched on

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April first nineteen sixty from Cape

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Canaveral Florida the satellite weighed

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a hundred and twenty two kilograms and

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carried two TV cameras and two video

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recorders the first picture was of

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clouds was pretty rough and was actually

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classified and rushed down to the White

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House with the advance of science and

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technology we can now be fairly certain

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that a galveston storm will never be a

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surprise again the microwave instruments

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onboard Noah and prime are so sensitive

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that they can see Earth's surface

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through the clouds as it orbits at eight

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hundred sixty kilometers above Earth's

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atmosphere Noah and Prime sends near

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real-time data for evolving severe

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weather formations this up-to-the-minute

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data is crucial to many remote parts of

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the world where satellite data is the

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only source of information on developing

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weather patterns being a polar orbiting

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satellite and orbiting the Earth once

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every 102 minutes a huge advantage of

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Noah and prime is that it sees what's

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developing on the other side of Earth

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thus giving an advanced warning prior to

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severe weather reaching land we need to

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let people know right away that there's

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a solar flare coming there's this

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hurricane there's this tornado line of

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outbreak heading your way or there's

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some winter squaws or some lake-effect

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snows coming off two great legs these

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are all things that we need to let

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people know you know today or as soon as

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possible that that's going to happen

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what's in the future a try agency effort

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between the National Oceanic and

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Atmospheric Administration the

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Department of Defense and NASA will

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result in the launch of a

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next-generation highly advanced

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environmental watch system called and

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pose which will unite the present

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civilian and military polar orbiting