weather satellite

American  

noun

1. meteorological satellite.

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weather satellite Cultural  

1. An artificial satellite that revolves around the Earth and detects and reports weather patterns on the Earth's surface.

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Etymology

Origin of weather satellite

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

This image was created by mixing the 16 bands monitored by the GOES-18 weather satellite to encode land masses, oceans and atmospheric features as different colours.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

SpaceX is planning to launch a weather satellite into low Earth orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Base during a 10-minute window set to begin at 7:25 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Four of its instruments are on the aging Aqua and Terra satellites, which have only a few years of life left; the fifth is on a weather satellite likely to expire this decade.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2024

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China's main contractor for its space programme, said the weather satellite Fengyun 3G had successfully launched from the northwestern province of Gansu at 9:36 a.m.

From Reuters • Apr. 16, 2023

I imagined the weather satellite picture - a jumble of patchy cloud, looking like the jumble in my brain.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd