TIROS 1

 Weather is always a major talking point between people, it can be hot, cold, wet or dry.

We are also used to getting fantastic images beamed done from weather satellites orbiting the Earth showing just what the weather is going to be, this includes incredible pictures of hurricanes from space.

However all these modern satellites can trace their time lines back to TIROS 1 the very first weather satellite which was launched on April 1^st 1960. TIROS stands for Television Infrared Observation Satellites.

TIROS 1 was an experimental weather satellite built by NASA and would operate until June 1960 when an electoral fault occurred and the probe failed.

Although the pictures it sent back are poor by the standards of today it showed what could be done to help meteorologists predict the weather today.

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