Tiros 1 Weather Satellite

With each succeeding generation of satellites remote sensing instruments became increasingly sophisticated and generated finer spectral and spatial resolution imagery.

Tiros 1 weather satellite.

Tiros television infrared observational satellite. That satellite the television infrared observational satellite or tiros 1 operated for only 78 days but demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring earth s cloud cover and weather patterns from space. On april 1 1960 a satellite designed by the radio corporation of america rca launched to become the nation s first weather satellite. It was developed in a collaborative project initiated designed and constructed by staff at the david sarnoff research center now part of sri the astro electronics division and defense electronics products.

The tiros program television infrared observation satellite was nasa s first experimental step to determine if satellites could be useful in the study of the earth. Tiros 1 or tiros a was the first successful low earth orbital weather satellite and the first of a series of television infrared observation satellites. On october 4 1957 the former soviet union launched sputnik 1 the first artificial satellite to be successfully placed in orbit around earth. Tiros was the first satellite that was capable of remote sensing of the earth enabling scientists to view the earth from a new perspective.

Tiros or television infrared observation satellite is a series of early weather satellites launched by the united states beginning with tiros 1 in 1960. The program promoted by harry wexler proved the usefulness of satellite weather. On the evening of april 1 1960 president dwight eisenhower saw the first image sent back from space by the television infrared observation satellite tiros 1 weather satellite shaped as some quipped like an enormous hatbox. At that time the effectiveness of satellite observations was still unproven.

On april 1 1960 the national aeronautics and space administration nasa launched the television infra red observation satellite tiros 1 the world s first successful weather satellite. The tiros program was nasa s first experimental step to determine if satellites could be useful in the study of the earth.