40 Years of Geostationary Satellites through the Vision of Verner E. Suomi
December 6th, 2006 represents an historic day for the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Forty years ago, NASA launched the Applications Technology Satellite-I (ATS-I) at Cape Canaveral, carrying as its payload, the Spin-Scan Camera. The camera, one of Verner Suomi’s “gadgets”, started a revolution in satellite meteorology felt around the globe. And appropriately, by some sort of cosmic coincidence, this event occurred on Vern’s 51st birthday.
