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• About to lose crucial weather satellite (link) (pic)
  • I was the lead engineer for integration, test, and launch operations for QuikSCAT
  • Again I am impressed by the talent and experience of the crew here! (nm)
  • ers-2 scatterometry winds are also available
  • WindSat (pic)
    • Nice pic, but what the heck use is meters/sec?
      • I think it's European convention to use M/sec (link)
      • sorry...it's an easy conversion
        • WMO convention is to use Meters/Second (link)
      • m/s is more intuitive, anyway
        • I think knots is just fine (link)
          • I always though your horizons were limited
            • Yep, that's right. (link)