Since the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, people have sent a lot of stuff into orbit and beyond and they've left behind a lot of junk in the process.
Satellites obviously play a role in gathering information like this about hurricanes but so do the planes that actually fly into them and the instruments these planes carry aboard.
And by making the loading station a mobile ocean base, the entire system could be moved at will, allowing it to maneuver around extreme weather, and dodge debris and satellites in space.
However, the scientists involved have been pointing out for years that it would take a very small investment, in a scientific world of satellites and supercomputers, to make such networks a lot more capable.
And it was during one of the Willis Conover broadcasts Jazz From A to Z that they interrupted and announced that then Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite of the earth which was Sputnik one.
正是在威利斯·科诺弗广播音乐节目 Jazz From A to Z时候,他们中断了广播,并宣布当时苏联发射了地球上第一颗人造卫星Sputnik one。
The modern age: satellite TV Satellites TV used to broadcast TV beginning in 1962. Satellites allow TV to be broadcast live over vast distances, with everyone recieving the same broadcast at the same time.