Everyday, thousands of objects pass overhead as they fly through space. Some of these are satellites used to monitor weather patterns around the world. Many of these stallites are set up so that curious amateurs can receive their transmissions and see the images they’re capturing. The 4 most common for this are the US satellites NOAA 15, 18 and 19 and the russian METEOR- M2. The transmissions can be received with some simple and inexpensive hardware that’s very readily available. Check out our video on the process to learn more: