TIROS
TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite, Tyros) is one of the American meteorological satellite projects, the world's first weather satellite Tyros No. 1 as the first machine. Both are launched by the American Aeronautics and Space Administration rocket. The TIROS - N / NOAA plan that draws on the flow of the initial plan is still ongoing. The name is a "television infrared observation satellite" when translated into Japanese, meaning a satellite that transmits observation data of the infrared sensor in the form of a television image. At the time the satellite was primarily intended for military purposes, it was a few plans to open up applications for consumer use. Every time we launched the observation equipment, we repeatedly refined based on observation results and found the optimal observation method, established a field called meteorological satellite. Performance has improved, and in recent years it also has a role as an Earth observation satellite. ...