The Evolution of Meteorological Satellites and the Insight from It

This paper briefly recollects the meteorological satellites at home and abroad, especially their development cause as well as renovative and generation replacement changes of the operational meteorological satellites. It gives an elementary introduction to their function, role and position in atmospheric sciences and systematic sciences concerning the earth. Furthermore, proceeding from such a basis, the paper probes into the revelation derived from the fact that operational meteorological satellites have made rapid progress in the past 50 years or more.