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The beginnings of Hurricane Betsy as photographed from TIROS X. Latitude 13 N,Longitude 52 W.
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Early polar-orbiting satellite image of a tropical cyclone.
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TIROS I launch. Launch vehicle was a Thor Able rocket. TIROS I was a testsatellite launched by NASA.
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First complete view of the World's Weather - photogaphed by TIROS IX. Imageassembled from 450 individual photographs.
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View of tropical cyclone centered near Del Rio, Texas. This picture showed thepromise of satellite monitoring of weather. The picture was made from moviecameras mounted in a Navy Aerobee rocket fired from White Sands Proving Ground.Operational Use
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A Mercury launch. The Mercury series were manned orbiting vehicles. Manymeteorological and earth resource photographs were taken by Mercury astronauts.
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Graphic of ITOS satellite series - included ITOS-1, and NOAA-2 to NOAA-5. ITOS-1also known as TIROS M.
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First complete view of the World's weather as seen from TIROS IX.
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Photograph of a Pacific atoll taken by an astronaut.
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Launch of TIROS I by a Thor-Able rocket. This was the first meteorologicalsatellite launched into orbit.
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Launch of NOAA satellite
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Complex Number 17 at Cape Canaveral where TIROS-carrying Thor-Delta rockets were launched.
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The launching of TIROS I, the first meteorological satellite.In: Weather Analysis from Satellite Observations, U.S. Navy ResearchFacility, December 1960. Figure 1.3.
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The Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) station at Wallops Island. Large antennaon left receives TIROS TV imagery. Immediately to the right of this antenna isa smaller antenna that receives and transmits navigation and control commands.
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An 85-foot diameter parabolic antenna used to send commands and receiveinformation from meteorological satellites.
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An automatic picture transmission (APT) receiving antenna mounted on the top ofthe Weather Bureau National Weather Satellite Center. This was an eight-turn,helical, 14-foot long antenna.
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Technicians operating electronic equipment for recording and displaying TIROStelevision, infrared, and telemetry signals.
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The Gilmore Creek Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) station.
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Dr. Sigmund Fritz, chief of the Weather Bureau's Meteorological SatelliteSection of the Office of Research in 1958. Note that this pre-dated thelaunch of TIROS I. Following the launch, Dr. Fritz became first Chief Scientist of the new Meteorologic
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David Johnson, appointed chief of the Weather Bureau's MeteorologicalSatellite Laboratory in 1960 following the launch of TIROS I.
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