4.01.2010
Friday, April 1, 1960: First weather satellite
TIROS-1 (Television InfraRed Observation Satellite) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was only operational for about two and a half months, but the thousands of images it sent back proved that satellites could monitor global weather conditions from space.
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