High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NOAA-7 (or NOAA-C) was launched on 23 June 1981 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. NOAA-7 was launched atop an Atlas F rocket. Launch occurred at 3:53am PST. Its mass was 588.9 kilograms (1,298 lb). It had an orbital time of 102 minutes at an inclination of 98.9, a perigee of 845 kilometres (456 nmi) and an apogee of 863 kilometres (466 nmi). NOAA-7 was an operational meteorological satellite for use in the National Operational Environmental Satellite System (NOESS), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was used to support the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) during 1978-1984. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не имеет...