Weather satellite (TIROS-1)
Satélite meteorológico (TIROS-1)
- Date
- 1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States; built by RCA, Princeton
- Credited to
- NASA and RCA (Verner Suomi as a pioneer of satellite meteorology)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
The first satellite to photograph the Earth's cloud cover from orbit. It made global weather forecasting and hurricane tracking possible.
What it led to
- Multi-day weather forecasting and cyclone warnings that save lives
- The observation of the global climate and evidence of warming
- Civil remote sensing (Landsat)
Built on
- Sputnik 1, first artificial satellite1957
- television camera
- solar cell
Made possible
- Earth observation satellite (Landsat 1)1972
- numerical weather prediction
- geostationary weather satellites