Components of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_Infrared_Observation_Satellite" title="Category:Television Infrared Observation Satellite">Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS)</a>. TIROS spacecraft were the beginning of a long series of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. TIROS was followed by the TOS (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TIROS_Operational_System" title="Category:TIROS Operational System">TIROS Operational System</a>) series, and then the ITOS (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Improved_TIROS_Operational_System" title="Category:Improved TIROS Operational System">Improved TIROS Operational System</a>) series, and later the NOAA series. TIROS spacecraft were developed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Goddard Space Flight Center">Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)</a> and managed by ESSA (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Science_Services_Administration" class="extiw" title="w:Environmental Science Services Administration">Environmental Science Services Administration</a>). The objective was to establish a global weather satellite system. As described by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/QuickLooks/tirosQL.html">TIROS Quicklook</a>, from the JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library.
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Image ID:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/spac0056.htm">spac0056, NOAA In Space Collection</a>