Weather & Forecasting · Recorded milestone
GPS radio occultation
Recorded year2006
Taiwan and the US launch the COSMIC satellites, which read temperature and moisture from how GPS signals bend through the atmosphere.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.