{"id":408,"date":"2012-06-04T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:51:39","slug":"ssec-satellite-meteorology-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/408","title":{"rendered":"SSEC Satellite Meteorology Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/408\/timelline\" rel=\"attachment  wp-att-427\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\" title=\"timelline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/06\/timelline-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/library.ssec.wisc.edu\">SSEC&#8217;s Schwerdtfeger Library<\/a> is pleased to release the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.ssec.wisc.edu\/timeline\">SSEC Satellite Meteorology Timeline<\/a>, the most recent addition to its collection of digital resources.\u00a0 The interactive timeline highlights satellite meteorology achievements in which SSEC played a role.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline begins more than 50 years ago, when the world\u2019s fascination with space exploration quickly grew on the heels of the 1957 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/history\/igy\/\">International Geophysical Year<\/a> (IGY) and the Soviet Union\u2019s successful launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/sputnik\/\">Sputnik<\/a> later that same year.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/spaceact.html\">NASA, founded in 1958<\/a>, paved the way for \u2018peaceful and scientific\u2019 exploration of space in the United States \u2013 not only funding scientific research programs, but providing funding to establish research centers like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\">Space Science and Engineering Center<\/a> (SSEC).<\/p>\n<p>Thematically, the evolution of satellite\u00a0meteorology at SSEC is characterized by eras of specific scientific needs and objectives realized by specific scientific programs and technologies; all connected over time.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.ssec.wisc.edu\/timeline\">timeline<\/a> describes and chronicles SSEC&#8217;s historic role in satellite meteorology, bringing us up to the present day, SSEC looks ahead to a rich and promising future in what has become a global enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSEC Satellite Meteorology Timeline released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-news-articles","tag-library"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}