What The Heck Is TIROS?

23 Oct 2018

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Great vintage background material on NASA's first experimental weather satellite, developed by RCA and launched in 1960. Namesake for an upcoming project.

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james.flynn over 7 years ago +2

Thanks for posting! Its great to see stuff like this to know where we came from. Way back when I first graduated, I worked at Cape Canaveral programming AN/YUK-20 computers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to airbornesurfer +2

airbornesurfer - this may be of historical interest to you as the '78 TIROS-N satellite was tracked and archived at this receiving station: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/17/dundee_satellite_receiving_station_closure…
jw0752 over 7 years ago +1

Seeing the technology of that time shows just how far we have come in 58 Years. John

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jw0752 over 7 years ago

Seeing the technology of that time shows just how far we have come in 58 Years.
John
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airbornesurfer over 7 years ago in reply to jw0752

Indeed! I find the "old stuff" fascinating because they were doing all this amazing work with what we might consider rudimentary technologies! That's why I generally love to give my projects a "retro" flair. Keep an eye out for more!
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beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to airbornesurfer

airbornesurfer - this may be of historical interest to you as the '78 TIROS-N satellite was tracked and archived at this receiving station:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/17/dundee_satellite_receiving_station_closure/
(The Muirhead photofacsimile machines are definitely in the 'old stuff' category.)
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airbornesurfer over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Oh, that's rad! I love that they kept the Muirhead running for so long! Too bad the station itself didn't fare so well.

Progress, I suppose :/
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beacon_dave over 6 years ago in reply to airbornesurfer

"Too bad the station itself didn't fare so well."

airbornesurfer - Indeed. There is another article about the closure in Spaceflight magazine:
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/Spaceflight%20vol.61%20no.6%202019-06%20pages%2002-05%20190422rev02.pdf
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airbornesurfer over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Great article! Thanks for sharing!
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airbornesurfer over 6 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Great article! Thanks for sharing!
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