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    series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites (TIROS) placed in low Earth orbit. The TIROS Program was NASA's first experimental step to determine...
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    Observation Satellite (TIROS) is a series of early weather satellites launched by the United States, beginning with TIROS-1 in 1960. TIROS was the first satellite...
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    radiation belts. The TIROS-1 spacecraft, launched on April 1, 1960, as part of NASA's Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) program, sent back...
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    TIROS-2 (or TIROS-B) was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the second in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites. It re-entered...
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  • TIROS-I may refer to: TIROS-1, the first TIROS satellite TIROS-9, the ninth TIROS satellite This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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  • early 1960s and 1970s. TIROS-1, the very first full-scale, low Earth orbit weather satellite. The primary objective of TIROS-1 was to explore television...
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    radiation belts. The TIROS-1 spacecraft, launched on April 1, 1960, as part of NASA's Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) program, sent back...
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  • Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece. 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. 1964 – The...
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    weather satellite to be considered a success was TIROS-1, launched by NASA on April 1, 1960. TIROS operated for 78 days and proved to be much more successful...
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    flights. The US-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946, took one image every 1.5 seconds. With an apogee of 65 miles (105 km), these photos were from five...
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    Thor-Able 148, orbiting Tiros-1 on 1 April 1960. Thor-Able 127 with Pioneer 0 (17 August 1958) Thor-Able 130 with Pioneer 1 (10 October 1958) Thor-Able...
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  • on March 15, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2020. Anderson, George D. (April 1, 2010). "The first weather satellite picture". Weather. 65 (4): 87. Bibcode:2010Wthr...
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    Center (NODC), and the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)). In 1960, TIROS-1, NASA's first owned and operated geostationary satellite, was launched...
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  • Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino (mostly known just as Tiro Federal or Tiro Federal de Rosario) is an Argentine football club from the city of Rosario...
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  • first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1 (Television Infrared Observation Satellite), is launched on April 1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida by the National...
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    radiation belts. The TIROS-1 spacecraft, launched on April 1, 1960, as part of NASA's Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) program, sent back...
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    launched from Cape Kennedy. It was instrumental in the development of TIROS-1 and TIROS-2 weather satellites. In 1953, the test site was sold by AT&T, and...
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    TIROS-7 (also called TIROS-G or A-52) was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the seventh in a series of Television Infrared Observation...
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    speeds. The April 1960 launch of the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, marked the beginning of the age where weather information became available...
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    for Ku the spacing can be 1°. This means that there is an upper limit of 360/2 = 180 geostationary C-band satellites or 360/1 = 360 geostationary Ku-band...
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    since. The April 1960 launch of the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, marked the beginning of the age where weather information became available...
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    becomes first submarine to surface at the North Pole on 17 March 1959 1960: TIROS-1, is the first weather satellite in polar orbit; eventually returned 22...
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    the form of the Soyuz spacecraft. The first true weather satellite, the TIROS-1 was launched on the Thor-Able launch vehicle in April 1960. The PGM-17...
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    Sputnik 1 was launched by an R-7 rocket. It burned up upon re-entry on 3 January 1958. The first successful human spaceflight was Vostok 1 ("East 1"), carrying...
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  • Science". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved 2018-10-14. "Ranger 1". www.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-14. This article incorporates public...
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    televised weather satellite, Tiros-1, was developed under the technical supervision of the Fort Monmouth Laboratories. Tiros-1 sent the first televised weather...
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    TIROS-4 (also called TIROS-D and A9) was a spin-stabilized meteorological satellite. It was the fourth in a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites...
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    South West England (category NUTS 1 statistical regions of England)
    letter to Harry Wexler who then developed the first weather satellite TIROS-1. Sir Arthur Eddington of Weston-super-Mare was the first to realise that...
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    new era with the launching of the world's first meteorological satellite TIROS-1, eight lists of tropical cyclone names were prepared for use in the Atlantic...
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  • Marcus Tullius Tiro (died 4 BC) was first a slave, then a freedman, of Cicero from whom he received his nomen and praenomen. He is frequently mentioned...
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