Satellite company to privatize high-accuracy weather data
GPS satellite company GeoOptics wants to revolutionize how private satellite data is gathered. It’s developing a low-orbit satellite system that collects atmospheric information by recording how radio signals bend as they travel through the atmosphere to a receiver. It’s a technique known as radio occultation (RO), which was pioneered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the late 1960s.
Molecules and electrons in the atmosphere cause radio waves to bend and slow down. Scientists can measure the bend and signal… Continue Reading