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  2. GOES-16 - Wikipedia

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    GOES-17 →. GOES-16, formerly known as GOES-R before reaching geostationary orbit, is the first of the GOES-R series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). GOES-16 serves as the operational geostationary weather satellite in the GOES East ...

  3. Weather satellite - Wikipedia

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    GOES-16, a United States weather satellite of the meteorological-satellite service. A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously), or geostationary ...

  4. Weather System Follow-on Microwave - Wikipedia

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    WSF-M2 →. The Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite is the United States Department of Defense's next-generation operational environmental satellite system. WSF-M will be a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite with a passive microwave imaging radiometer instrument and hosted furnished Energetic Charged Particle (ECP ...

  5. Satellite radio - Wikipedia

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    Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service. The satellite's signals are broadcast nationwide, across a much wider geographical area than terrestrial radio stations, and the service is primarily intended for the occupants of motor vehicles .

  6. WQRC - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .999theq .com. WQRC (99.9 FM; "99.9 The Q") is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Cape Cod region. The station is owned by Sandab Communications Limited Partnership II, doing business as CCB Media (Cape Cod Broadcasting Media ...

  7. METAR - Wikipedia

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    METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather forecasting. Today, according to the advancement of technology in civil aviation, the METAR is sent as IWXXM model. [1]

  8. Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 42.73517°N 71.48056°W. Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center ( ZBW; in radio communications, "Boston Center") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States, located in Nashua, New Hampshire . The primary responsibility of ZBW is the separation of overflights, and the expedited sequencing of arrivals and ...

  9. WCAI - Wikipedia

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    WCAI (90.1 FM) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, WNAN (91.1 FM) in Nantucket, and WZAI (94.3 FM) in Brewster, are NPR member radio stations serving the Cape Cod and Islands area of southeast Massachusetts. They broadcast primarily news and information programming and are owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston.