Tiros 1 Weather Satellite

Launched april 1 1960 nasa s first satellite designed to determine if earth could be studied from space was tiros 1.

Tiros 1 weather satellite. Although the satellite operated for only 78 days tiros 1 sent back 19 389 usable pictures proving the worth of weather observing satellites to the world and opening the door for the weather systems of the future. On april 1 1960 a satellite designed by the radio corporation of america rca launched to become the nation s first weather satellite. The mission managed and operated by nasa s goddard space flight center was a spiritual predecessor to today s expansive earth observing satellite fleet. Weather satellite tiros n noaa program 1978 1986.

The tiros n noaa program television infrared operational satellite next generation was nasa s next step in improving the operational capability of the tiros system first tried in the 1960 s and the itos noaa system of the 1970 s. Tiros proved extremely successful providing the first accurate weather forecasts based on data gathered from space. Within three months tiros 1 generated over 23 000 images of earth and its atmosphere providing an. Weather forecasting was deemed the most promising application of space based observations.

The tiros 1 program s first priority was the development of a meteorological satellite information system. The world s first experimental weather satellite tiros 1 was launched.