{"id":22778,"date":"2016-12-06T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=22778"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:58:00","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-the-launch-of-ats-1-the-first-geostationary-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/22778","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the launch of ATS-1, the first geostationary satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of <strong><a title=\"Advanced Technology Satellites (ATS)\" href=\"http:\/\/library.ssec.wisc.edu\/spinscan\/about.php\">ATS-1<\/a><\/strong> on 06 December 1966. ATS-1 was the first meteorological satellite to be placed into a geostationary orbit &#8212; an example of one of the first ATS-1 visible images is seen below, and <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.wisc.edu\/digital\/AATSimg\">early ATS images<\/a>.\u00a0 More information is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/9433\"><strong>SSEC<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/content\/50th-anniversary-ats-1\"><strong>NOAA\/NESDIS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/11Dec1966_ATS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"ATS-1 visible image (11 December 1966)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/12\/11Dec1966_ATS1.jpg\" alt=\"ATS-1 visible image (11 December 1966)\" width=\"640\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATS-1 visible image (11 December 1966)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of ATS-1 on 06 December 1966. ATS-1 was the first meteorological satellite to be placed into a geostationary orbit &#8212; an example of one of the first ATS-1 visible images is seen below, and early ATS images.\u00a0 More information is available from SSEC and NOAA\/NESDIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61819,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778\/revisions\/61819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}