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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    Titel :

    Tiros 1 meteorological satellite system


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    NASA -- Tech Report



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1962


    Format / Umfang :

    355 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Tiros I - Meteorological Satellite

    Sternberg, S. / Stroud, W. G. | NTRS | 1960



    Tiros 1 meteorological satellite system part 1

    Allison, L. J. / Neil, E. A. | NTRS | 1962


    Tiros meteorological operations

    Jones, J.B. / Mace, L.M. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1963