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Image:Tiros1.jpg 200px Tiros I weather satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Tiros2.jpg 200px Tiros II weather satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Tiros6.jpg 200px Tiros VI weather satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Tiros9.jpg 200px Tiros IX weather satellite Category:Spacecraft

... for launch early next year. ''( Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Release 65-75)'' A prototype Tiros weather satellite was donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air Museum by Dr. Hugh ... Satellite System ( TOS ), expected to be operational early next year, would modify a Tiros satellite similar to TIROS IX to permit daily observation of clouds in the earth's atmosphere. He added ...

... generation of new meteorological satellites. First of a series of eight polar-orbiting environmental spacecraft, Tiros-N would carry new environmental monitors representing significant technological advances over those on the current NOAA -series spacecraft. NOAA 's National Environmental Satellite Services (NESS) would operate Tiros-N , intended to improve weather analysis for more accurate weather forecasts; to locate ocean currents ...

... more than 19,000 usable cloud-cover photographs. TIROS I was followed by five additional successful Tiros satellites, the last two of which- TIROS V and vi-were still in operation after more ... had trans­mitted more than 44,000 useful cloud-system photographs and TIROS VI , more than 39,000. TIROS V and TIROS VI VI photographed hurri­canes and typhoons in July, August, and ... four Pa­cific typhoons. Since April 1, 1962, there were only seven days when a Tiros satellite was not in operation. Information gath­ered by satellites was being used in daily ...

... forecasting, said Jane Lubchenco, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. Since TIROS-1, meteorologists have far greater information about severe weather and can issue more accurate forecasts and warnings that save lives and protect property. NASA launched all 10 of the TIROS satellites. Throughout the 1960s, each satellite carried increasingly advanced instruments and technology. By 1965, meteorologists ...

... mi., drift rate ''(degrees per day westward)'' 6.8. ''(NASA Release 63-168; GSFC Historian)'' TIROS VI , still orbiting the earth and still providing excellent quality photographs, exceeded durability record of 302 days set by its predecessor TIROS V . Launched Sept. 18, 1962, TIROS VI provided 58,589 pictures (several hundred more than TIROS V ), of which about 90 per cent were ...

... into position and snap a picture, triggered by an infrared horizon sensor. The combination of TIROS IX 's polar orbit (83.4°) and rolling wheel was expected to provide 100% photographic coverage of the earth's cloud cover during daylight hours. Primary purpose of the TIROS IX launching was to test the new cartwheel concept as a forerunner of a joint NASA-Weather Bureau Tiros Operational System ( TOS ) of weather satellites. ''(NASA Release 65-7; Goddard News, 1/25/65 ...

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