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Constellation of Radar Satellites

Weather Geeks

English - October 18, 2023 07:05 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 159 ratings
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Guest: Rei Goffer, Tomorrow.io

Ursa Minor. Canis Major. Orion. These are all star patterns that you can detect in the night sky called constellations! No matter where you live on Earth, there are constellations that will greet you as you look up. That same principle inspired the company Tomorrow.io to create a plan to launch dozens of radar satellites to help increase coverage of life-saving weather observations around the entire globe, in the hopes that they will be able to sample every point on the planet, nearly every hour. Sounds like an immense undertaking doesn’t it? Well we wanted to talk to Tomorrow.io’s co-founder Rei Goffer about this ambitious plan…

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