REM@MIT-MC@sri-unix (11/30/82)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC> By the way, if you haven't yeard yet, last Thursday the weather satellite over the Pacific Ocean failed (the infrared sensor stopped working so we can't observe cloud formations any more). If it had failed a week earlier Hawaii wouldn't have known about that hurricane in the detail we've grown used to. Currently we in California don't have the forecasts of storms and nice pictures of them we've grown used to in recent years. An older satellite is being reativated (at least they're trying to reactivate it) now to provide at least some cloud images over the Pacific.
rcj (12/01/82)
Robert Elton Maas noted in an earlier article that the weather satellite over the Pacific had suffered an infrared failure. THE???? satellite. What did he mean THE -- is there only one? I find that difficult to believe. Anyone have any further info? The MAD Programmer (alias Curtis Jackson) Western Electric - Burlington, NC (919) 228-3814 or Cornet 291