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> the GOES-3 Satellite —a weather satellite launched in 1978 that lost its weather imaging capabilities and now provides 1-megabit per second data transmission
by BetaCygni 12y ago
> the GOES-3 Satellite —a weather satellite launched in 1978 that lost its weather imaging capabilities and now provides 1-megabit per second data transmission for eight hours a day
Beautiful! From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_3
> having spent over thirty one years in operation, it is one of the oldest functioning satellites in orbit.