TIROS, or Television Infrared Observation Satellite, was a series of early weather satellites launched by NASA, beginning with TIROS-1 in 1960. The program was successful in proving the usefulness of satellite weather observation. A weather satellite is a type of artificial satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and/or climate of the Earth. ... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

TIROS continued as the ESSA TIROS Operational System, and was eventually succeded by the NOAA ITOS (Improved TIROS Operational System) or TIROS-M, TIROS-N and Advanced TIROS-N series of satellites. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. ...

• TIROS-1 (A)
• TIROS-2 (B)
• TIROS-3 (C)
• TIROS-4 (D)
• TIROS-5 (E)
• TIROS-6 (F)
• TIROS-7 (G)
• TIROS-8 (H)
• TIROS-9 (I)
• TIROS-10 (OT-1)

TIROS Operational System

• ESSA-1 (OT-3)
• ESSA-2 (OT-2)
• ESSA-3 (TOS-A)
• ESSA-4 (TOS-B)
• ESSA-5 (TOS-C)
• ESSA-6 (TOS-D)
• ESSA-7 (TOS-E)
• ESSA-8 (TOS-F)
• ESSA-9 (TOS-G)

ITOS/TIROS-M

• TIROS-M (ITOS-1)
• NOAA-1 (ITOS-A)
• ITOS-B
• ITOS-C
• NOAA-2 (ITOS-D)
• ITOS-E
• NOAA-3 (ITOS-F)
• NOAA-4 (ITOS-G)
• NOAA-5 (ITOS-H

TIROS-N

• TIROS-N
• NOAA-6 (A)
• NOAA-B
• NOAA-7 (C)

Advanced TIROS-N

• NOAA-8 (E)
• NOAA-9 (F)
• NOAA-10 (G)
• NOAA-11 (H)
• NOAA-12 (D)
• NOAA-13 (I)
• NOAA-14 (J)
• NOAA-15 (K)
• NOAA-16 (L)
• NOAA-17 (M)
• NOAA-18 (N)
• NOAA-N' (launch 2008)

External links

NASA page on TIROS

NASA page on ESSA

NASA page on ITOS and NOAA

NASA page on TIROS-N

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