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Tomorrow-R1 Weather Satellite Deemed Operational

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Tom Patton
May 17, 2023
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Tomorrow-R1, launched on April 14th, has been declared operational in orbit. Tomorrow-R1 is the world's first commercially built weather-radar satellite.

"We're building the de facto GPS network for weather."

Shimon Elkabetz, Tomorrow.io.

The spacecraft is orbiting at 310 miles above Earth in a polar orbit, and carrying a Ka-band radar ideally suited for d…

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