Tiros 1, designed to observe cloud cover over earth by television techniques, was launched on Apr 1 1960 by Thor-Able rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla, into near-circular orbit with apogee of 465.9 statute mi and inclination of 48.36° to equator; satellite traversed 1302 orbits before end of its 3-mo functional life, and returned slightly fewer than 23,000 pictures, over 60% having high meteorological information content; background, design and development of system; results obtained.


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    Title :

    Tiros 1 meteorological satellite system


    Additional title:

    NASA -- Tech Report



    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    355 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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