41. In 1993, NOAA-13, a weather satellite , lost contact with Earth after 12 days in orbit. 42. Additionally, weather satellites provide a global weather watch. 43. The GOES-8 weather satellite launched in April 1994 is monitoring tropical storm development over the Atlantic. 44. That's equivalent to the data that could be transmitted by 10, 000 weather satellites every second. 45. A new Indian weather satellite , of the INSAT-II series, is expected to be launched in 1998. 46. China launched its first two weather satellites in 1988 and 1990, but they have stopped working. 47. Weather satellites take advantage of this instability to measure wind speeds over large bodies of water.48. The Climate Orbiter was to spend more than two years circling Mars like a weather satellite . 49. The organisation is a leading member of EUMETSAT, responsible for the procurement of Meteosat weather satellites . 50. Marine and aviation programs also rely on information collected by weather satellites covering huge expanses of ocean.
