Meanings
- not comparableBefore the use of a satellite.
In presatellite days, certain components of the radiation balance, such as short wave (reflected) and long wave (absorbed and reradiated) energy losses to space, were established by estimation, not measurement.
2007, Arthur P. Cracknell, Introduction to Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 2562 more examples
She had had a satellite dish installed just so she could watch The Young and the Restless every day instead of waiting for the damn state to puit it on Ratnet. In her presatellite days, she'd once had to wait two weeks to find out if Nicholas Newman had gone to jail for a murder he naturally had not committed.
1997, Dana Stabenow, Breakup, →ISBN, page 189Indeed, the presatellite determination of the figure of the Earth and of its external gravity field was based on astro-geodetic and gravity data gleaned from observations made only on the continents, and not even on all the continents, and from measurements that were by no means homogeneously distributed.
2013, Milan Bursa, Karel Pec, Gravity Field and Dynamics of the Earth, →ISBN, page 6
Origin
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