TIROS
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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.
TIROS was succeeded by the ITOS series?
External links
NASA page on TIROS (http://www.earth.nasa.gov/history/tiros/tiros.html)
NASA Goddard GOES POES Program - POES Home (http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/poes/index.html)