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

REDIRECT GEMINI IX

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

Gemini 9 Contractors briefing May 1966 Gemini 9 Crew Debriefing June 11 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript 2 June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript PAO June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Composite flight transcript June 3 1966 Category:Spacecraft Category:Mission

... 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 ...

... Apollo on reentry from simulated lunar trajectory, In lunar and planetary achievement, RANGERS VIII and IX provided more than 13,000 lunar surface photographs and brought that project to a close ... VI , first of four projected interplanetary satellites, TIROS IX became the first weather satellite to provide close to 100% coverage of the earth daily, and TIROS X was the first in a series ...

... 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 ... Bureau, praised the Tiros program and said that the NASA-Weather Bureau Tiros Operational Satellite System ( TOS ), expected to be operational early next year, would modify a Tiros satellite similar to TIROS IX to permit ...

... warn us of dangerous weather conditions and to use new observations to improve weather forecasting. TIROS (Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite), the first dedicated weather satellite, was launched in 1960 ... watch program that continues in operation today was started using TIROS IV in September 1962. Daily global weather coverage started with TIROS IX in January 1965, and continues today. (See Figure 6.9 ...

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