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Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

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201 points diggan | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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aziaziazi ◴[05 Jul 25 18:22 UTC] No.44474536[source]▶
Naive question: what’s the benefit here to scan downward (from the satellite position) over upward, from the ground?
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1. mensetmanusman ◴[05 Jul 25 19:52 UTC] No.44475068[source]▶
You can’t drive your sensor bank everywhere on the surface of the earth to point up.